Black writers in French : a literary history of negritude / Lilyan Kesteloot ; translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kesteloot, Lilyan.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Ellen Conroy, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ecrivains noirs de langue française. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Etudiant noir.

Egitime défense.

Tropiques; revue culturelle.

French literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

Negritude (Literary movement).

Black people in literature.

French literature--Black authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1974.

Contents:

I. The beginnings : 1. Legitime defense: a manifesto ; 2. West Indian literature in French: "A tracing paper poetry"; 3. Surrealism and criticism of the West ; 4. Communism and the Black man ; 5. Black students in Paris and the Harlem Renaissance ; 6. Rene Maran and Batouala

II. Negritude is born : 7. L'Etudiant noir: a forum for the new ideas ; 8. How the ethnologists helped ; 9. Negritude: some definitions, Sartre's negativity

III. The negritude poets : 10. The poetry of negritude ; 11. Leon Damas: Pigments ; 12. Aime Cesaire: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal ; 13. Leopold Senghor: Chants d'ombre and Hosties noires.

IV. The war years : 14. Extraliterary activity and two important essays ; 15. Vichy Martinique and Tropiques ; 16. Cultural sterility: denial of the self ; 17. Weapons: Africa and the race ; 18. Surrealist poetry: Cesaire's "Miraculous weapon"

V. An end to colonization : 19. In Paris: founding Presence Africaine ; 20. The nature and influence of Presence Africaine ; 21. Black French-language writers in 1960: a survey ; 22. A new generation and the negritude label

VI. Conclusions : 23. A contribution to the larger humanism.

Notes:

Translation of: Les écrivains noirs de langue française.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Brussels, 1961.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-389) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Kesteloot, Lilyan. Ecrivains noirs de langue française. English. Black writers in French.

ISBN:

0877220565

9780877220565

OCLC:

1028829

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français