Raphael enthoven et souleymane bachir diagne pdf

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Raphael enthoven et souleymane bachir diagne pdf: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Prof. of French

This dissertation calls into question the critique that has depicted the Francophone literary movement known as Negritude as a sole vehicle of black essentialism. There is one theme that is common to all literary works; the African has always existed. He has his own civilizations, multiple and multiform. But these civilizations have been assaulted by western vandalism, from which they can recover only if the African decides to return to his sources and origin.

This return is essentially, the starting point of the great literary movement of Negritude, a very simple and natural, but which has experienced diverse interpretations by western critics, who have accused it of feeding itself on myths. Because the black African existed, one had to do nothing more than defend him. That is, one has to take him as he was, impoverished, humiliated, oppressed, and hurl him in the face of the western world, which was ignoring.

This was the principal goal of primitive negritude.