Négritude is an artistic and political movement founded by Aimé Césaire. Négritude writers embrace blackness as a single, global, diasporic identity (rather than aligning themselves with a particular ethnic or national black identity). They reject colonialism and use both Marxism and surrealism to show how art and literature can be used for revolutionary purposes.
Négritude Quotes in Black Skin, White Masks
The Black Skin, White Masks quotes below are all either spoken by Négritude or refer to Négritude. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Less commonly he [the “educated black man”] wants to feel part of his people. And with feverish lips and frenzied heart he plunges into the great black hole. We shall see that this wonderfully generous attitude rejects the present and future in the name of a mystical past.
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Négritude Term Timeline in Black Skin, White Masks
The timeline below shows where the term Négritude appears in Black Skin, White Masks. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5: The Lived Experience of the Black Man
...quotations from Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, the central text of Négritude. He acknowledges the power of “black magic,” eros, and rhythm, but cautions that celebrating these...
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Fanon moves on to quote Sartre’s critique of the fact that followers of Négritude tend to be “militant Marxists,” who substitute a focus on the issue of race for...
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Chapter 6: The Black Man and Psychopathology
Before Césaire and Négritude, most Antilleans did not even think of themselves as black. When black people encounter white...
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