Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas.

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Miller, F. Bart

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TextSeries: Francopolyphonies ; 16.Publication details: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789401210713
9401210713
1306738539
9781306738538
9789042038264
9042038268

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PQ4034.A7 .M384 2014

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Background to Research on Léon-Gontran Damas; Postcolonial Studies and Négritude; Postcolonial Studies and Genre Theory:A New Approach to Négritude Literature; Corpus and Chapter Structure; Prefatory Note; Chapter 1; Awakening to an Anti-Colonial Poetics:The Case of Pigments; Postcolonial Poetics and the Context of Pigments; Voicing Resistance in Damas's Poetry; Recalling Adoption and Adaptationthrough Slavery and Exploitation Narratives; Continued Adaptation and Emerging Adeptnessthrough Rejections of Authority.

Becoming Adept through WarConclusion; Chapter 2; Damas's Confrontation with Colonialism: EthnographicEssayism and Anti-Colonial Critique in Retour de Guyane; Ethnography, Colonialism and Retour de Guyane; The Anti-Colonial Essay and Négritude; In Pursuit of Gold; Prison as a Literal and Metaphorical Framework; Social Division and Cultural Lacunae; Education and Servility; Assimilation; Conclusion; Chapter 3; A Return to Guyane:The Use of the Folk Tale in Veillées noires; Damas and Tètèche; Oral Tradition and the Creation of Cultural Memory; The Folk Tale as Resistance.

Tricksters and GourmandsHuman Relations, the Supernatural and Spirituality; Conclusion; Chapter 4; Drinking to Remember:Pre-histories and Afterlives of Assimilation in Black-Label; Memory and Exile; Framing and Forming Black-Label through Memory; Damas's Alcoholic Narrator in Black-Label; Canto I -- Memories of Contact; Canto II -- Magnification of a Personal History; Canto III -- Revisiting the Assimilation of Sicy-Chabine; Canto IV -- Escape as Imagination and Suicide; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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. 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.

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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. 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.