Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas
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- Auteurs : Miller F. Bart ;
- Editeurs : Amsterdam New York Rodopi ;
- Date d'édition : 2014, cop. 2014
- ISBN : 978-90-420-3826-4
- Sujets : Négritude, Damas, Léon-Gontran -- Critique et interprétation
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (261 p.), : Couv. ill. en coul., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : Pays-Bas
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Francopolyphonies, 16,
Notes
Bibliogr. p. [243]-258. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé
This book 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 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' works and their relationship to one another, thus demonstrating the continuity of Damasian Négritude