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Negritude
literary movement
Also known as: Négritude
- French:
- Négritude
- Related Topics:
- African literature
- Caribbean literature
Negritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aimé Césaire from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana, began to examine Western values critically and to reassess African culture. The Negritude movement was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering that emerged among a group of Black thinkers and artists (including novelists and ...(100 of 713 words)