Negritude

NÉgritude - nĕgˈrĭtoodˌ, –tyood, a literary movement on the part of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers who lived in Paris during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Adherents of négritude included Leopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Damas, and Aimé Césaire, who is said to have coined the term. Characteristic of Read More...

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Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French
by Belinda Elizabeth Jack. 196 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Discourses Surrounding French Texts "About" Africa and Africans: The Ubiquity of "Les Sciences Coloniales"

2: Critics of the African Diaspora and Their Contribution to Debates in Paris

3: Negritude and Literary Criticism

4: Nationalisms and Literary Criticism: The Nature of Literary "Engagement"

5: Seminal Studies: Historiography and Criticism

6: The Wider Debate

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Negritude Women
by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. 170 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Caliban's Women

1: Race Signs of the Interwar Times: Pan-Noirisme and la Dépêche Africaine

2: A New Race Spirit and the Francophone New Negro

3: Les Soeurs Nardal and the Clamart Salon: Content and Context of la Revue Du Monde Noir, 1931-1932

4: Antillean Literature and Race Consciousness

5: Tropiques, Negritude, Surrealism, 1941-1945

Black Internationalism (1928) Jane Nardal

Exotic Puppets (1928) Jane Nardal

Acts of Grace (1929) Paulette Nardal

In Exile (1929) Paulette Nardal

The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students (1932) Paulette Nardal

Letter from Lieutenant de Vaisseau Bayle, Chief of Information Services, to the Editor of the Review Tropiques (May 10, 1943)

Response from Tropiques (May 12, 1943)

The Malaise of a Civilization (1942) Suzanne Césaire

The Great Camouflage (1945) Suzanne Césaire

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African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966 (Chap. 7 "Negritude and the Critics")
by Rand Bishop. 213 pgs.

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"From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book." Modern Fiction Studies

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

1: Introduction

2: The Languages of African Literature

3: African Literature for Whom? the Question of Audience

4: The Making of a Literary Tradition

5: Realisms, African Reality, and the African Past

6: African Literature, Littérature Engagée

7: Negritude and the Critics

8: Conclusions

Bibliography

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West African Literatures: Ways of Reading (Chap. 2 "Negritude")
by Stephanie Newell. 259 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

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List of Maps

West African Timeline

1: Introduction: Where Is 'West Africa'?

2: Negritude

3: Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature

4: Oral Literatures

5: Lost and Found in Translation

6: Things Fall Apart- Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-Scape

7: Popular Literature

8: Griots with Pens in Their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s

9: Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing

10: Marxism and West African Literature

11: The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism

12: Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'

13: 'Queering' West African Literatures

14: Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory

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The Black Surrealists (Chap. 5 "On Negritude")
by Jean-Claude Michel. 196 pgs.

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Francophone Cultures and Literatures

The Black Surrealists

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Foreword

Abstract

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Surrealism Spirit

Chapter 2: The Magazine Légitime Défense's Allegiance to Surrealism

Chapter 3: The Magazine L'Etudiant Noir and Surrealism

Chapter 4: Aimé Césaire and Surrealism

Chapter 5: On Negritude

Chapter 6: The Review Tropiques and Surrealism

Chapter 7: Leopold Sedar Senghor and Surrealism

Chapter 8: Léon Damas and Surrealism

Chapter 9: Surrealism in Haiti

Chapter 10: René Dépèstre: Poetry of Revolt and Merveilleux Universe of Voodoo

Chapter 11: The Last Followers

Epilogue

Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

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The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature, in Research in African Literatures
by Kwaku Asante-Darko. 12 pgs.

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Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism (Chap. 2 "The Dialectics of Negritude: Or, the (Post)Colonial Subject in Contemporary African-American Literature")
by Gita Rajan, Radhika Mohanram. 234 pgs.

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At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the idea of empire. This book examines various theories of empire, and how they create networks of discourse in contemporary postcolonial settings. In exploring the idea of empire, the contributors consider such constructions as nation and modernity, identity politics, the status and role of exiles, and border intellectuals. Postcolonial texts considered include literature and films.

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Recent Titles In Contributions to the Study of World Literature

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Locating Postcoloniality

Works Cited

1: Rereading Fanon, Rewriting Caribbean History

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2: The Dialectics of Négritude: Or, The (post) colonial Subject in Contemporary African-American Literature

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3: The Colonial Voice in the Motherland

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4: Minor Pleasures

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5: Women's Rights Versus Feminism? Postcolonial Perspectives

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6: Plantation Cafés: Jazz, Postcolonial Theory, and Modernism

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7: Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figuring Home," Locating Histories"

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8: Postcolonial Spaces and Deterritorialized (homo)sexuality: The Films of Hanif Kureishi

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9: Is My Body Proper? Postcoloniality in the Classroom

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10: The Media Scene and Postcolonial Theories: An Interview with Prajna Paramita Parasher

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11: Retrospective Hallucination": Postcolonial Video as Cultural Critique"

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12: History, Folklore, and Common Sense: Sembène's Films and Discourses of Postcoloniality

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13: Biculturalism, Postcolonialism, and Identity Politics in New Zealand: An Interview With Anna Yeatman and Kaye Turner

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14: Postcolonialism/Multiculturalism--Australia 1993: An Interview With Sneja Gunew

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Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues ("Ethnophilosophy and the 'Negritude' Movement" begins on p. 22)
by Richard H. Bell. 190 pgs.

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Bell introduces readers to the complexity of Africa, the legacy of colonialism, and the challenges of post-independence Africa, and other developments. He also discusses the concepts of negritude, African socialism and race.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Understanding Another Culture

2: Foundations of Modern African Philosophy

3: Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy

4: African Moral Philosophy I Community and Justice

5: African Moral Philosophy II Truth and Reconciliation

6: Narrative in African Philosophy Orality and Icons

7: Some Concluding Remarks

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The African Philosophy Reader: A Text with Readings ("Negritude: Literature and Ideology" begins on p. 35)
by P. H.Coetzee, A. P.J.Roux. 667 pgs.

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Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.

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Preface to First Edition

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1: Discourses on Africa

2: Trends in African Philosophy

3: Metaphysical Thinking in Africa

4: Epistemology and the Tradition in Africa

5: Morality in African Thought

6: Race and Gender

7: Justice and Restitution in African Political Thought

8: Africa in the Global Context

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African Philosophy in Search of Identity ("Negritude and European Philosophy" begins on p. 24)
by D. A. Masolo. 301 pgs.

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African Philosophy in Search of Identity

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1: Logocentrism and Emotivism

2: Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy

3: Systematic Ethnophilosophy

4: Language and Reality

5: Cultures without Time?

6: Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality

7: Excavating Africa in Western Discourse

8: Tradition and "Modernity"

Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy

Notes

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Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization ("The Complementariness of Otherness: Negritude and the Idea of Race" begins on p. 51)
by Messay Kebede. 256 pgs.

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Editorial Forword

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One: Western Discourses on Africa

1: The Invention of the "White Man"

2: Western Attempts to Make Sense of Africa

Two: Between Evolutionism and Pluralism: Tempels''s Path to Human Sameness

1: Logic and Conversion

2: Mysticism and Rationality

3: Getting over Evolutionism: Evangelization as Purification

4: Beyond Evolutionism and Relativism

Three: The Holy Grail of Otherness

1: The Complementariness of Otherness

2: Past-Oriented Temporality and Otherness: The Case of Mbiti

1: Myth and Reality in African Philosophy

Four: Sameness versus Otherness

2: Philosophic Sagacity

3: Fanon and the Rehabilitation through Violence

1: Diop and the Stolen Legacy

Five: Particularism versus Otherness

2: Traditionality in Lieu of Otherness

3: From Otherness to Historicity: Hermeneutical School

4: The Primacy of Deconstruction

1: The Return to the Past

Six: The Future as Forward Movement into the Past

2: Questioning the Conflict between Tradition and Modernity

3: Postmodernist Approaches to African Identity

4: Myth-Making and Construction

5: African Attempts at Myth-Making

1: From Colonialism to Elitism

Seven: Colonization without Colonizers: The Phenomenon of African Elitism

2: The Elitist Drift of Ethnophilosophy

3: Power as Tutorship

1: Ethnicity and the African Philosophical Debate

Eight: Ethnicity and State Formation: The Mystical Root of Nationhood

2: Primordialism and the Naturalness of Ethnicity

3: Instrumentalism and the Constructedness of Ethnic Identities

4: Ethnicity and the Legitimacy of the State

5: From Ethnicity to Nation-State: The Mystical Moment

Nine: Harnessing Myth to Rationality

1: The African Dilemma

2: The Complementarity of Myth and Rationality

3: The Particularism of Freedom

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About the Author

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Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies ("Negritude" begins on p. 322)
by John C. Hawley, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 510 pgs.

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The collapse of empires has resulted in a greater appreciation for indigenous cultures in former colonies and a renaissance of creativity. More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries by expert contributors overview and assess the effects of globalization on literary and cultural studies in the 21st century. Attempting to counter what some have seen as the anglophone bias of postcolonial studies, the volume emphasizes the common heritage of resistance in francophone, hispanophone, and other literatures, including the literatures of nonEuropean postimperial states.

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