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Negritude|ˈniːgrɪtjuːd|
Also with small initial and in Fr. form Négritude.
[a. F. négritude nigritude.]
The quality or characteristic of being a Negro; affirmation of the value of Black or African culture, identity, etc.
1950French Rev. XXIII. 383 Their [sc. pre-1939–45-war young French Colonial Negro authors'] writing would be different, so different that only a new term could describe it; hence they invented the word: négritude. 1960Guardian 29 July 4/2 The deeper cultural manifestations of colonialism. The best of this..kind of analysis seems..to be coming from those who have been colonised themselves—in Africa..from ‘Présence Africaine's’ explorations of négritude. 1960Observer 20 Nov. 7/1 A movement for what French Pan-Africanists call ‘Negritude’—the recognition of the Negro personality in world civilisation. 1961Ibid. 29 Oct. 13/7 Senghor has been one of the leading prophets of Négritude, a literary and philosophical movement which expresses in an almost mystical way the African identity over against Western materialism. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 596/4 The recent African Writers Conference..was significant for its hostility to négritude. 1963Internat. Year Bk. 274/1 Aimé Césaire, a Martinique poet, invented the term, ‘négritude’, to describe the poetry that he and Haitians Jacques Roumain and Léon Laleau, and Léon Damas from Guiana were attempting to write. The word referred to the elevating of Africa as a place toward which all people of Negro blood aspired spiritually, but this Africa was not so much a geographical location as a condition of the mind. 1965Time 27 Aug. 19 The whole⁓hearted attempt by other Negroes to emphasize their Negroid features and hair texture shows their pride in their ‘negritude’—a word currently in fashion in Negro communities. 1966New Statesman 18 Nov. 730/1 Negritude is the least characteristic thing about Senator-elect Edward Brooke... On election night..Walter Cronkite told..television listeners that Brooke was ‘five-fourths White’. 1969N. Hare in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 435 The debate was kicked off by leading Negritude theoretician, Leopold Senghor. Ibid. 436 Negritude..permitted an escape into excessive glorification of the past and the traditional..so that one found difficulty in incorporating the techniques of the present and the future or in turning them effectively against the oppressor. 1971Black Scholar Apr.–May 8 The laws and order of this nation are contrary to the black man's nature, contrary to our Negritude. 1972M. Riofrancas in J. Pinkham tr. Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism 72 (tr. interview) How did you come to develop the concept of Negritude? A [imé] C[ésaire]. I have a feeling that it was something of a collective creation. I used the term first, that's true... It was really a resistance to the policy of assimilation. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Mar. 247/2 (Advt.), Negritude has been defined by Senghor as ‘the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men’. |