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Extracts from “Le temps des noyaux,” “Tentative de description d’un dîner de têtes à Paris-France,” and “La grasse matinée” in Paroles by Jacques Prévert appear by permission from Éditions Gallimard.
“Cubes” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, associate editor, copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Other rights by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal © Présence Africaine Editions, 1956.
Léon-Gontran Damas, Pigments-Névralgies © Présence Africaine Editions, 1972.
The Collected Poetry by Aimé Césaire, translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette J. Smith, © 1983 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press.
Excerpts of chapter 1 were previously published in Gail Hart and Anke S. Biendarra, eds., Visions of Europe: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Contemporary Cultural Debates (Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2014). Chapter 5 appeared in an earlier version as “Red Front / Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon,” Copyright © 2006 Johns Hopkins University Press. This article was first published in Diacritics 36, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 64–84. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. The author thanks both publishers for granting permission to reprint her work.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Noland, Carrie, 1958–
Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime / Carrie Noland.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16704-8 (cloth: alk. paper) —ISBN 978-0-231-53864-0 (ebook)
1. French poetry—Foreign countries—History and criticism. 2. French poetry—Black authors—History and criticism. 3. Negritude (Literary movement). 4. African diaspora in literature. 5. Book industries and trade—France—History—20th century. 6. Literature—Aesthetics. 7. Blacks in literature. 8. Modernism (Aesthetics)—France. I. Title.
PQ3897.N65 2014
840.9'896—dc23
2014013368
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