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The Negritude poets, an anthology of translations from the French, edited and with an introd. by Ellen Conroy Kennedy

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The Negritude poets, an anthology of translations from the French, edited and with an introd. by Ellen Conroy Kennedy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-284)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Negritude poets

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1631544

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introd. by Ellen Conroy Kennedy

Series statement

"A Richard Seaver book"

Sub title

an anthology of translations from the French

Summary

Colonized black people the world over have long had to express themselves in the tongue of the colonizer. In the case of the French language, the influence stretched from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, with its obvious center situated in Africa. The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude". The term "negritude" was coined by Aimé Césaire in his long poem "Notes on a Return to the Native Land", which was published in France in 1944 ... While the present volume, for historical and cultural reasons, has a special significance, it also is, and should be taken as, an anthology of poetry. (Book jacket)

Table Of Contents

Caribbean Poets in French. Oswald Durand (1840-1906) Haiti; Massillon Coicou (1865-1908) Haiti; René Maran (1887-1960) French Guiana/Martinique; Léon Laleau (1892-) Haiti; Jacques Roumain (1907-1944) Haiti; Emile Roumer (1908-) Haiti; Charles Pressoir (1910-) Haiti; Guy Tirolien (1917-) Guadeloupe; Paul Niger (1917-1962) Guadeloupe -- Léon Dumas (1912-) French Guiana; Aimé Césaire (1913-) Martinique; Edouard Glissant (1928-) Martinique; René Depestre (1926-) Haiti -- African Poets in French. Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-) Senegal; Birago Diop (1906-) Senegal; Fily-Dabo Sissoko (1900-1964) Mali; Antoine-Roger Bolamba (1913-) Congo/Kinshasa; Bernard Dadié (1916-) Ivory Coast; David Diop (1927-1960) Senegal; Elolongue Epanya Yondo (1930-) Cameroon; Martial Sinda (circa 1930-) Congo/Brazzaville; Yamba Ouloguem (1940-) Mali; Tchicaya U Tam'si (1929-) Congo/Brazzaville -- Indian Ocean Poets in French. Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo (1901-1937) Madagscar; Jacques Rabémananjara (1913-) Madagascar; Flavien Ranaivo (1914-) Madagascar; Edouard J. Maunick (1931-) Mauritius

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