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OverviewRediscovers the crucial role that women played in the influential Negritude movement. The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by the women who were not merely integral to the success of the movement, but often in its vanguard. Through such disparate tactics as Lacascade’s use of Creole expressions in her French prose writings, the literary salon and journal founded by the Martinique-born Nardal sisters, and Roussy-Césaire’s revolutionary blend of surrealism and Negritude in the pages of Tropiques, the journal she founded with her husband, these four remarkable women made vital contributions. In exploring their influence on the development of themes central to Negritude-black humanism, the affirmation of black peoples and their cultures, and the rehabilitation of Africa-Sharpley-Whiting provides the movement’s first genuinely inclusive history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. Denean Sharpley-WhitingPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.370kg ISBN: 9780816636792ISBN 10: 0816636796 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 11 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction : Caliban's women -- Race signs of the interwar times : Pan-Noirisme and La D epaeche Africaine -- Jane Nardal : a new race spirit and the new francophone negro -- Les soeurs Nardal and the Clamart salon : content and context of La Revue du Monde Noir, 1931-32 -- Paulette Nardal : antillean literature and race consciousness -- Suzanne C esaire : tropiques, negritude, surrealism, 1941-45 -- Appendix : edited and annotated translations / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Georges Van Den Abbeele.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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