African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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259 p, In an extensive collection of essays spanning 50 years of sustained scholarship, The Negritude Moment explores the many varied aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. F. Abiola Irele provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals. His collection also includes a rare essay on the structure of Aime Cesaire's imagery in its poetic transmutation of this experience.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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259 p., Explores the many aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. Provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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434 p., Establishes that in African, African American and Caribbean literature certain primordial and mythic patterns recur sufficiently to be recognizable as familiar elements in our literary experience. Each chapter identifies and discusses an archetypal image in relationship to a specific work or set of works.
