Negritude women
By: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Race relations; Literature; Black race; History and criticism; Black Women; Women authors; Western Civilization; Social conditions; Black authors; African influences; History
Description: The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellecutals, 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. 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. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Caliban's women; title: Race signs of the interwar times : Pan-Noirisme and La Dépêche Africaine; title: Jane Nardal : a new race spirit and the new francophone negro; title: Les soeurs Nardal and the Clamart salon : content and context of La Revue du Monde Noir, 1931-32; title: Paulette Nardal : antillean literature and race consciousness; title: Suzanne Césaire : tropiques, negritude, surrealism, 1941-45; title: Appendix : edited and annotated translations / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Georges Van Den Abbeele.