USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Thought

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The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Thought 

F. Abiola Irele (Author)

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In this collection of essays, which span more than forty years of sustained scholarship, Irele explores the varied aspects of Negritude as a movement and as concept. He provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of the themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals in their confrontation with the pressures of a difficult collective experience, in both its objective manifestations and its inward implications.

F. Abiola Irele is currently Provost of the College of Humanities, Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria. He was formerly Professor of French and Head, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ibadan. He has taught at various universities in Africa and the USA, including the University of Ghana, the Ohio State University, Tulane University and Harvard. He has also held a visiting fellowship at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. His publications include The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature (edited with Simon Gikandi) published in 2004, and three collections of essays: The African Experience in Literature and Ideology (1981, rpt 1990) The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora (2001) and Négritude et Condition Africaine (2008).

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