WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Negritude, French Négritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Négritude was an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1930s who sought to reclaim the value of blackness and African culture. Aubrey Williams. Death and the Conquistador (1959) Tate.

Detailed explanation-3: -From a political standpoint, Negritude was an important aspect to the rejection of colonialism. Emerging at the cusp of African independence movements, Negritude made an impact on how the colonized viewed themselves. It also sparked and fed off of subsequent literary movements that were responding to global politics.

Detailed explanation-4: -The movement’s founders (or Les Trois Pères), Aimé Césaire, Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas, met while studying in Paris in 1931 and began to publish the first journal devoted to Négritude, L’Étudiant noir (The Black Student), in 1934.

Detailed explanation-5: -Negritude constituted a dream and above all a philosophy of action for the black people as a race of discriminated and exploited humanity. Negritude contained in its vision a new African personality, African world-view, and a path to authentic black existence.