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As a reaction to the global domination and colonization by the Western world, La Negritude, a literary movement of black intellectuals in Francophone countries, was responsible for the production of many outstanding oeuvres. A prominent figure in the movement (along with Aimé Césaire and Leopold Senghor), the French-Guianese journalist and politician Léon Damas, shares (in French) several selections from his sizable anthology. Country(s) French GuianaKeyword(s) Literature; Poetry; Spoken word Year of Recording 1967 Record Label Folkways Records Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Credits Artist Léon-Gontran Damas ; Authored by Léon-Gontran Damas ; Cover photo by David Gahr ; Design by Ronald Clyne
As a reaction to the global domination and colonization by the Western world, La Negritude, a literary movement of black intellectuals in Francophone countries, was responsible for the production of many outstanding oeuvres. A prominent figure in the movement (along with Aimé Césaire and Leopold Senghor), the French-Guianese journalist and politician Léon Damas, shares (in French) several selections from his sizable anthology.
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