Barbara celarent american journal of sociology, vol. Aime cesaire, leopold sedar senghor, leongontran damas, guy tirolien, birago diop et rene depestre en font partie. Mckay, who bemoaned divisions of blacks, was acclaimed by senegalese poet and politician leopold sedar senghor as. Senghor presents a new interpretation of the history of servitude, develops an argument for the shared strengths of africans based upon this principle, and outlines their future role in world politics. The concept of negritude in the poetry of leopold sedar senghor. Poet and the later first president of senegal, senghor used negritude to work. Apres sa formation au collegeseminaire liberman, il part pour paris en 1928 ou il frequente le lycee louislegrand et cotoie comme condisciple le futur president francais. Negritude, literary movement of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s that began among frenchspeaking african and caribbean writers living in paris as a protest against french colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. The concept of negritude in the poetry of leopold sedar. Senghor was the son of a prosperous serer planter and trader. Markovitz, leopold sedar senghor and the politics of negritude, new york, atheneum, 1969, viii300 p. Negritude is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the african diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating black consciousness across africa and its diaspora. The concept of negritude in the poetry of leopold sedar senghor book description.
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