Senghor y Césaire: la vuelta a África (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

This article deals with the meeting in Europe of the poets Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aime Cesaire, who, 26 years old the first and 19 the second, met at the Liceo Louis-le-Grand, in Paris, and from very early they began to forge the movement of the Negritude that gave a radical turn to the perception of black culture in the world. Both had different reasons to leave their homeland (Senghor, from Senegal, Cesaire, from Martinique), but thanks to their studies, their debates, their artistic and philosophical initiatives, They achieved a common path to generate a reunion between Africa and the cultures of the African and Caribbean countries colonized by France in the 18th and 21st centuries. The Negritude for these poets was not negrism, nor apologies that “enclosed the black in its color”, but the desire to universalize some cultures and free them from ethnocentrism and plaintive conformism. We conclude that the most important thing in this movement was the formation of an awareness o...

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