A very interesting question, and an important one. The negritude movement came about as a result of negritude writers meeting black American intellectuals in Paris, the black American writers including langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Countee Cullen. These intellectuals found what they considered to be a common ground in the black experience, and the negritude movement was born. So to answer the question, first of all, the Harlem Renaissance preceded negritude. The negritude writers Cesaire, Senghor and Damas were inspired by the black American art movement. The Harlem Renaissance was set into motion by the concept of The New Negro. It must also be noted that there were several important women, the Nardal sisters, who actually introduced the black American art to Cesaire and the others. The Nardal sisters are not given their due, but they are the ones greatly responsible for the negritude movement. Hope this helps.
African writers writers south of the Sahara.
The negritude movement encouraged independence because it encouraged Africans to value their heritage and it rejected the view held by colonial powers of African cultures.
similarities and differences between Negritude movement in Africa in the 1950's and civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960's
Caribbean action movement
The word is defined as meaning the quality or fact of being of black African origin.
Negritude criticism emphasizes the celebration and affirmation of African culture and history. In "Old Man and the Medal" by Ferdinand Oyono, Negritude criticism allows for a deeper exploration of themes related to African identity, colonization, and resistance. This perspective can reveal the ways in which Oyono's work challenges colonial stereotypes and offers a nuanced portrayal of African experiences.
Negritude or Pan-Africanism
Negritude or Pan-Africanism
No, negritude is not a mental illness. It was a Franco-phone literary movement in French Colonial Africa and the French speaking West Indies that began in the 1930's, and rejected racist French cultural attitudes and celebrated negritude which, to be polite, we will translate as "Blackness." The author's of the movement were intentionally using a derogatory term in the name of their movement (as, for example, Richard Pryor would do in America by trying to disarm the "n word" in the 1960's and 70's) to expose the ridiculousness of it.
Leopold Senghor, former President of Senegal
CORRECTED: An Afro-French writers' movement designed to bring solidarity to these writers, their styles, and, their ideologies (many of which were considered Marxist and anti-populace French).