The concept of negritude in the poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor / by Sylvia Washington Bâ.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bâ, Sylvia Washington, 1937-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001--History and criticism.

Senghor, Léopold Sédar.

Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001.

Senegalese poetry (French)--History and criticism.

Senegalese poetry (French).

Negritude (Literary movement).

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press 1973.

Contents:

From the Sine to the Seine

The Experience of Negritude: Exile and the Kingdom

The Basis of Negritude: Black African Ontology

The Expression of Negritude: Black African Psychophysiology

The Fundamental Traits of Negritude: Rhythm and Imagery

The Future of Negritude: The "Civilization of the Universal"

Translations of Selected Poems.

Notes:

Preface in English and French by Léopold Sédar Senghor.

"The author wishes to thank Atheneum Publishers for permission to use her own translations of twenty-four poems that originally appeared translated into English by John Reed and Clive Wake in 'Léopold Sédar Senghor: Selected Poems,' 1969."

"This b ook has been composed in Linotype Caledonia."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

069106521X

OCLC:

627821