The negritude moment : explorations in francophone African and Caribbean literature and thought /
In this collection of essays, which span more than forty years of sustained scholarship, Irele explores the varied aspects of Negritude as a movement and as concept. He provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of the themes that have preo...
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Trenton, N.J. :
Africa World Press,
[2011], ©2011
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Table of Contents:
- Negritude or black cultural nationalism
- Negritude: literature and ideology
- Negritude revisited
- Negritude debate
- Contemporary thought in Francophone Africa
- Essential landscape: image and symbol in the poetry of Aime Cesaire
- In search of Camara Laye
- Philosophy and the postcolonial condition in Africa