Reiland Rabaka

The Negritude Movement (eBook, ePUB)

W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism). By viewing Negritude as an "insurgent idea" (to invoke this book's intentionally incendiary subtitle), as opposed to merely a form of poetics and aesthetics, The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a "traveling theory" (à la Edward Said's concept) that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of proto-Negritude concepts from Du Bois's discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to post-Negritude concepts in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. Utilizing Negritude as a conceptual framework to, on the one hand, explore the Africana intellectual tradition in the twentieth century, and, on the other hand, demonstrate discursive continuity between Du Bois and Fanon, as well as the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement, The Negritude Movement ultimately accents what Negritude contributed to arguably its greatest intellectual heir, Frantz Fanon, and the development of his distinct critical theory, Fanonism. Rabaka argues that if Fanon and Fanonism remain relevant in the twenty-first century, then, to a certain extent, Negritude remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 533
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498511360
• Artikelnr.: 43811960

Autorenporträt

Reiland Rabaka is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an affiliate professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program and a research fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is the author of several books on W.E.B. Du Bois. He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Du Boisian Negritude: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black
Folk, and the Origins of the Negritude Notion
1. Prelude to Negritude: The New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance,
and the Early Evolution of the Negritude Notion
2. Damasian Negritude: Leon Damas
3. Cesairean Negritude: Aime Cesaire
4. Senghorian Negritude: Leopold Senghor
5. Fanonian Negritude: Frantz Fanon