The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity Negrismo and Negritude [Hardcover]

Recommended.Mamadou Badiane makes an important contribution not only to Francophone and Hispanophone Studies separately, but also to an emerging field whereby the Caribbean is studied as a whole, in spite of linguistic differences. This text is useful for both generalists and specialists who wish to learn more about the writings born in adjacent islands.The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity is an important book that contributes to a better understanding of the Afro-Caribbean cultural identity from an interdisciplinary standpoint.The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N?gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N?gritude through the eyes of the poetry of Nicolas Guill?n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal?s Matos as well as L?opold Senghor, L?on-Gontran Damas, and Aim? C?saire. The book shows Caribbean cultural identity as a slippery and fluctuating zone.The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N?gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N?gritude, 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. It poses the bases of both movements in the Caribbean and in Africa, and lays out the literary antecedents that influenced or shaped both movements. This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guill?n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal?s Matos. This search is extended to the N?gritude movement through the poems of L?opold Senghor, L?on-Gontran Damas, and Aim? C?saire. Mamadou Badiane further discusses the under-represented N?gritude women writers who were silenced by their male counterparts during the first half of the twentieth century. Ultimately, this is a book on Caribbean cultural identity that shows it in a slippery and fluctuating zone. By demonstrating that while the founders of the N?gritude movemelÓÕ