Negritude Women

The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aime Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Leon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by four women -- Suzanne Lacascade, Jane and Paulette Nardal, and Suzanne Roussy-Cesaire -- who were not merely integral to the success of the movement, but often in its vanguard.

Through such disparate tactics as Lacascade's use of Creole expressions in her French prose writings, the literary salon and journal founded by the Martinique-born Nardal sisters, and Roussy-Cesaire's revolutionary blend of surrealism and Negritude in the pages of Tropiques, the journal she founded with her husband, these four remarkable women made vital contributions. In ex

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Caliban's Women	p. 1
Race Signs of the Interwar Times: Pan-Noirisme and La Depeche Africaine	p. 25
Jane Nardal: A New Race Spirit and the Francophone New Negro	p. 38
Les Soeurs Nardal and the Clamart Salon: Content and Context of La Revue du monde noir, 1931-1932	p. 52
Paulette Nardal: Antillean Literature and Race Consciousness	p. 68
Suzanne Cesaire: Tropiques, Negritude, Surrealism, 1941-1945	p. 80
Black Internationalism (1928)	p. 105
Exotic Puppets (1928)	p. 108
Acts of Grace (1929)	p. 114
In Exile (1929)	p. 116
The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students (1932)	p. 119
Letter from Lieutenant de Vaisseau Bayle, Chief of Information Services, to the Editor of the Review Tropiques (May 10, 1943)	p. 125
Response from Tropiques (May 12, 1943)	p. 128
The Malaise of a Civilization (1942)	p. 130
The Great Camouflage (1945)	p. 135
Notes	p. 141
Selected Bibliography	p. 157
Index	p. 159
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