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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... tonight the muffled rhythms , clapping hands , languid chants , that rouse our sisters back in Guinea black and bare to rapture ; they awake in me tonight negro twilights heavy with a sensual excitement , for the soul of the black land ...
... tonight the muffled rhythms , clapping hands , languid chants , that rouse our sisters back in Guinea black and bare to rapture ; they awake in me tonight negro twilights heavy with a sensual excitement , for the soul of the black land ...
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... tonight is me ! Abraham , the joy of unfolding before your eyes the false treasure of your madness . Abraham , the miracle of splitting the atom of this family . Abraham , tonight , the rapture of burning the cards of white respect ...
... tonight is me ! Abraham , the joy of unfolding before your eyes the false treasure of your madness . Abraham , the miracle of splitting the atom of this family . Abraham , tonight , the rapture of burning the cards of white respect ...
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... tonight The great medicine - tree of my soul In the white man's land At the crossing of his roads Three times I kiss his door ! Three times I kiss his eyes ! I am Papa Alegba God of your thresholds Tonight it is I The master of your ...
... tonight The great medicine - tree of my soul In the white man's land At the crossing of his roads Three times I kiss his door ! Three times I kiss his eyes ! I am Papa Alegba God of your thresholds Tonight it is I The master of your ...
Table des matières
Oswald Durand 18401906 HAITI | 3 |
Oblivion | 10 |
Sacrifice | 16 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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