The Négritude movement is in many respects the most important expression of cultural nationalism in Africa and represents a significant current of the political and cultural awakening during the twentieth century in the black diaspora. As a concept, Négritude is associated with the literature and thought of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers and intellectuals, who began during the 1930s to challenge the tenets of French colonial rule and to assert their cultural inheritance as black people—an assertion that derived from a sense of their common connection to Africa as the ancestral homeland. In the course of its active development over a period of forty years, the movement saw the production of an extensive body of literary works and ideological writings, and was animated by a series of manifestations—notably two major conferences in Paris (1956) and Rome (1959)—which sought to promote a recognition of Africa as a realm of humanistic values. (Read more in the The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought)
The Negritude Movement by
The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a “traveling theory” (à la Edward Said's concept) that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of proto-Negritude concepts from Du Bois's discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to post-Negritude concepts in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
The Negritude Poets: an Anthology of Translations from the French by
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".
Negritude Women by
The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood in terms of the contributions of its male founders. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women. Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by the women who were not merely integral to the success of the movement but often in its vanguard.
Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance by 
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by
Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity.
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by
In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political Négritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as 'mechanical,' and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse.
The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Negritude by
This book looks primarily at Negrismo and Négritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas.This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guillén, Manuel del Cabral, and Palés Matos.
Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime by
Engaging primarily the works of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter the personal voice of each author, transforming an empirical subjectivity into a hybrid, textual entity that she names, after Theodor Adorno, an aesthetic subjectivity.
Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal by
She then examines the work of the National Ballet in relation to Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude ideology and cultural politics. Finally, the author addresses the circulation of dances in the streets, discotheques, and courtyards of Dakar, drawing attention to women dancers' occupation of the urban landscape.
Race Culture and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité by
Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium.
Collected Poetry of Aimé Césaire by
The surrealist poetry of the noted Martinican author, Aime Cesaire, portrays Africa's fight for freedom from colonialism.
Modernism and Negritude: the Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire by 
Beyond Negritude: Essays From Woman in the City by
This annotated translation, with an introduction and essay summaries by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, collects work from that journal, and presents it in both the original French and in English. Never before translated, these essays represent a lens through which to view the evolution of Nardal’s intellectual thought on race, gender, politics, globalization, war, religion, and philosophy.
Rethinking Négritude Through Léon-Gontran Damas by
This book analyses four cases in which Damasian Négritude shifted through generic experimentation: Pigments (1937), Retour de Guyane (1938), Veillées noires (1943) and Black-Label (1956).
Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives by
Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives addresses Fanon's extraordinary, often contraversial writings, and examines the ways in which his work can shed light on contemporary issues in cultural politics. Embracing feminist theory, cultural studies and postcolonialism, Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives offers new directions for cultural and political thought in the postcolonial era.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Explores one the of most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movement, as it follows Fanon from his birth in 1925 on the French island of Martinique through his medical training in France, then to Algeria where he joined the liberation struggle.
Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism by
Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). This biography reintroduces Fanon for a new generation of readers, revisiting these enduring themes while also arguing for those less appreciated—namely, his anti-Manichean sensibility and his personal ethic of radical empathy, both of which underpinned his utopian vision of a new humanism.Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books. This biography reintroduces Fanon for a new generation of readers, revisiting these enduring themes while also arguing for those less appreciated which underpinned his utopian vision of a new humanism.
Prose and Poetry by 
Black, French, and African: a Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor by
Childhood -- The French -- Paris -- The Milieu of negritude -- Coming of age -- Spokesman -- The War years -- Brilliant apprentice -- Master politician -- Negritude and African socialism -- Toward independence -- President Senghor
The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor. by 
Coups de Pilon: Poèmes by