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Author Rabaka, Reiland, 1972- author.

Title The negritude movement : W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the evolution of an insurgent idea / Reiland Rabaka.

Publication Info. Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 431 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
Critical Africana studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Du Boisian Negritude : W.E.B Du Bois, the souls of black folk, and the origins of the negritude notion -- Prelude to Negritude : the new negro movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the early evolution of the negritude notion -- Damasian Negritude : Leon Damas -- Cesairean Negritude : Aimee Cesaire -- Senghorian Negritude : Leopold Senghor -- Fanonian Negritude : Frantz Fanon.
Summary The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism). By viewing Negritude as an "insurgent idea" (to invoke this book's intentionally incendiary subtitle), as opposed to merely a form of poetics and aesthetics, The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a "traveling theory" (à la Edward Said's concept) that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of proto-Negritude concepts from Du Bois's discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to post-Negritude concepts in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. Utilizing Negritude as a conceptual framework to, on the one hand, explore the Africana intellectual tradition in the twentieth century, and, on the other hand, demonstrate discursive continuity between Du Bois and Fanon, as well as the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement, The Negritude Movement ultimately accents what Negritude contributed to arguably its greatest intellectual heir, Frantz Fanon, and the development of his distinct critical theory, Fanonism. Rabaka argues that if Fanon and Fanonism remain relevant in the twenty-first century, then, to a certain extent, Negritude remains relevant in the twenty-first century"--The publisher.
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Subject Negritude (Literary movement)
Negritude (Literary movement)
Black people -- Race identity -- History.
Black people -- Race identity.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rabaka, Reiland, 1972- Negritude movement 9781498511353 (DLC) 2015011055 (OCoLC)903675212
ISBN 9781498511360 (electronic book)
1498511368 (electronic book)
9781498511353
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