Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, F. Bart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Francopolyphonies ; 16.
Temas:
Damas, Léon-Gontran, > 1912-1978 > Criticism and interpretation.
Damas, Léon-Gontran, > 1912-1978
Negritude (Literary movement)
Négritude.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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