Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas / F. Bart Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, F. Bart, author.

Series:

Francopolyphonies ; 16.

Francopolyphonies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978--Criticism and interpretation.

Damas, Léon-Gontran.

Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978.

Negritude (Literary movement).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2014.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.

ISBN:

9789042038264

9042038268

OCLC:

875151783