Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas /

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

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Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas 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 (1912–1978) in two ways...

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Superior document:Francopolyphonies ; 16
VerfasserIn:
Miller, F. Bart,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Francopolyphonies ; 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource (259 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Awakening to an Anti-Colonial Poetics: The Case of Pigments
  • Damas’s Confrontation with Colonialism: Ethnographic Essayism and Anti-Colonial Critique in Retour de Guyane
  • A Return to Guyane: The Use of the Folk Tale in Veillées noires
  • Drinking to Remember: Pre-histories and Afterlives of Assimilation in Black-Label
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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