Transcript THE MOVEMENT OF NEGRITUDE

THE MOVEMENT OF NEGRITUDE
"My negritude is not a rock, it's deafness
hurled against the clamor of the day"
THE THREE FOUNDERS
Leopold Sédar Senghor
Aimé Césaire
© Xian, 1995-2007
Leon Gontran Damas
Léopold Sédar Senghor (à l'extrême droite) en 1923 au collège Libermann de Dakar
Collection particulière © DR
NEGRITUDE POEMS
"Notebook of a return to the native land"
My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled
against the clamor of day
My negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over
the earth's dead eye
My negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
It takes root in the red flesh of the soil
It takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
It breaks
Aime Cesaire