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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458015503321

Autore

Miller F. Bart

Titolo

Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas / / F. Bart Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

94-012-1071-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Francopolyphonies ; ; 16

Disciplina

841

Soggetti

Negritude (Literary movement)

Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Awakening to an Anti-Colonial Poetics: The Case of Pigments -- Damas’s Confrontation with Colonialism: Ethnographic Essayism and Anti-Colonial Critique in Retour de Guyane -- A Return to Guyane: The Use of the Folk Tale in Veillées noires -- Drinking to Remember: Pre-histories and Afterlives of Assimilation in Black-Label -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas analyses four cases in which Damasian Négritude shifted through generic experimentation: Pigments (1937), Retour de Guyane (1938), Veillées noires (1943) and Black-Label (1956). In doing so, it also advances scholarship on Damas (1912–1978) in two ways. On the one hand, it undertakes the crucial and in-depth research needed to challenge the understanding of Négritude as a bipartite (Césaire and Senghor) phenomenon. On the other hand, it offers an innovative reading of Damas whose work deserves more complete consideration than it has received thus far. Reading this essay will illuminate Damas’s works and their relationship to one another, thus demonstrating the continuity of Damasian Négritude.