By Belinda E Jack

Negro-African literature in French is certainly one of a couple of appellations most typically used to explain a physique of literary texts written in French through Africans and people of African descent from approximately 1920 onward. Discussing the varied different phrases which have been used to designate a similar physique of texts (Colonial literature, Black literature, literature of Negritude), Jack explores the advanced courting among how literatures are named and the way they're evaluated. the 1st thorough research of the background and feedback of Negro-African literature in French, this paintings offers an account of the improvement of a severe discourse and its impact on basic texts.

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8). Critics of the African Diaspora • 37 While the Revue Indigène and the Movement married to it avoided any single orthodoxy, inherent in the work of the writers associated with them were specific new ideas about Haitian literature and the range of criteria to which it might conform. Narrow imitations of French models were considered wholly inappropriate and irrelevant, while the “indigenous” reality was to become the focus of attention. 6 Indigenism was replaced by Africanism as the dominant cultural, literary, and ideological movement in Haiti.

He spearheaded the review Lucioles, published from 1926 until 1928. The journal brought together colored Martinicans like Gratiant himself, white Martinicans, and metropolitan French intellectuals living on the island. ”8 Lucioles was far from radical in its politics: it benefited from the printingpress of the journal La Paix, a dogmatically reactionary publication. Lucioles’s literary conservatism disappointed younger Martinicans who had hoped for something less provincial that would draw inspiration from models such as Haiti’s cultural example.

It is against the background of nineteenth-century writers, of whom Durand is the supreme example, that developments in criticism and literary debate in Haiti, at the beginning of the twentieth century, emerge most clearly. Implicit in Durand’s verses was a particular view of what Haitian poetry should be. He had introduced specifically Haitian themes and particular national political concerns. These two elements were to become increasingly important in the debate about a national or “indigenous” literature.

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