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| ====== Aimé Césaire & René Depestre, "On Negritude" ====== | ====== On Negritude, by Aimé Césaire & René Depestre ====== |
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| Negritude began as a collective "resistance to the politics of assimilation" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 52). As a response to the struggle of the Haitians (a struggle which sought independence solely politically, not culturally), this resistance took back the unfavored or "offensive" terms used by Frenchman at the time as insults, "negre, as a term of defiance" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 53).\\ | Negritude began as a collective "resistance to the politics of assimilation" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 52). As a response to the struggle of the Haitians (a struggle which sought independence solely politically, not culturally), this resistance took back the unfavored or "offensive" terms used by Frenchman at the time as insults, "negre, as a term of defiance" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 53).\\ |
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| Cesaire states on page 53 that there was a real history of what he would call Negritude in Haiti during their independence movement (Rothenberg and Rothenberg). Haiti, in Cesaire's view, "is the country where Negro people stood up for the first time, affirming their determination to shape a new world, a free world." (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 53)\\ | Cesaire states on page 53 that there was a real history of what he would call Negritude in Haiti during their independence movement (Rothenberg and Rothenberg). Haiti, in Cesaire's view, "is the country where Negro people stood up for the first time, affirming their determination to shape a new world, a free world." ((Rothenberg and Rothenberg, eds. Symposium of the Whole 53))\\ |
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| According to Cesaire, Negritude is very individual, as "everyone has his own Negritude". He says that Negritude, to him, is an embracing of "a concrete rather than an abstract", the abandonment of the "atmosphere of rejection" and "an inferiority complex" which has developed in black people, and that there must be established "a concrete consciousness of what we are—that is, of the first fact of our lives: that we are black; that we were black and have a history, a history that contains certain cultural elements of great value; and that Negroes were not, as you put it, bom yesterday, because there have been beautiful and important black civilizations" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 54)\\ | According to Cesaire, Negritude is very individual, as "everyone has his own Negritude". He says that Negritude, to him, is an embracing of "a concrete rather than an abstract", the abandonment of the "atmosphere of rejection" and "an inferiority complex" which has developed in black people, and that there must be established "a concrete consciousness of what we are—that is, of the first fact of our lives: that we are black; that we were black and have a history, a history that contains certain cultural elements of great value; and that Negroes were not, as you put it, bom yesterday, because there have been beautiful and important black civilizations" (Rothenberg and Rothenberg 54)\\ |
| * [[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/n/negritude|Négritude - Art Term, contextualized by the Tate]] | * [[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/n/negritude|Négritude - Art Term, contextualized by the Tate]] |
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| {{tag>French Negritude Interview Theory}} | {{tag>French Pan-African Haiti Martinique Negritude Interview Theory Postcolonial Symposium_Of_The_Whole Aimé_Césaire René_Depestre}} |
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