Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;
Constant,Isabelle (Editor) and Mabana,Kahiudi Claver (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
"The impetus for this book was a conference to mark the centenary of Senghor's birth, held at the Cave Hill campus, University of the West Indies, Barbados.", 321 p., A collection of 20 essays on the beginnings and continued significance of the Negritude movement in literature.