The Negritude Poets: An Anthology of Translations from the FrenchEllen Conroy Kennedy Viking Press, 1975 - 284 pages Colonized black people the world over have long had to express themselves in the tongue of the colonizer. In the case of the French language, the influence stretched from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, with its obvious center situated in Africa. The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude". The term "negritude" was coined by Aimé Césaire in his long poem "Notes on a Return to the Native Land", which was published in France in 1944 ... While the present volume, for historical and cultural reasons, has a special significance, it also is, and should be taken as, an anthology of poetry. (Book jacket). |
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... Soul of the Black Land " is a lyrical evocation of West Indian Africanisms , composed in the tradition that began with La Revue indigène . " Marie Galante , " named for the island near Guadeloupe where Tirolien grew up , recalls both ...
... Soul of the Black Land " is a lyrical evocation of West Indian Africanisms , composed in the tradition that began with La Revue indigène . " Marie Galante , " named for the island near Guadeloupe where Tirolien grew up , recalls both ...
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... Soul of the Black Land Your breasts of shining black satin , your long , supple , undulating polished arms , the white smile of eyes in your dark face awake in me tonight the muffled rhythms , clapping hands , languid chants , that ...
... Soul of the Black Land Your breasts of shining black satin , your long , supple , undulating polished arms , the white smile of eyes in your dark face awake in me tonight the muffled rhythms , clapping hands , languid chants , that ...
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... soul ! 16 . Loko I am Loko and I come from far Loko - mirror , Loko - key Loko - crossroads , I keep watch Over the cardinal points Of my people , I keep watch away Over the tree of their misfortunes I keep watch my soul turned Toward ...
... soul ! 16 . Loko I am Loko and I come from far Loko - mirror , Loko - key Loko - crossroads , I keep watch Over the cardinal points Of my people , I keep watch away Over the tree of their misfortunes I keep watch my soul turned Toward ...
Table des matières
Oswald Durand 18401906 HAITI | 3 |
Oblivion | 10 |
Sacrifice | 16 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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