| Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Francopolyphonies ; 16 |
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Francopolyphonies ; 16.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978 |
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Negritude (Literary movement)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Negritude (Literary movement)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401210713 |
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9401210713 |
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1306738539 |
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9781306738538 |
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9789042038264 |
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9042038268 |
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