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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading\nRemembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement\nSunday October 10\, 2021 – 2pm EST\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \nLéopold Sédar Senghor (10/9/1906 – 12/20/2001) and the Négritude Movement \nIn May 1935\, the word ‘Négritude’ appeared for the first time in the only issue of the literary magazine L’Etudiant noir\, edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor\, Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas. Négritude was defined it as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black” and transcended the borders of the black Francophone literary world. \nNobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka countered the idea with his famous quote\, “A tiger does not shout its tigritude\, it pounces.” \nLéopold Sédar Senghor was president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981 and Africa’s most famous poet. His poetry\, alive with sensual imagery\, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa’s past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Ideologically an African socialist\, he was the major theoretician of Négritude and the founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc party\, was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française and won the 1985 International Nonino Prize in Italy. \nNégritude is a framework of critique and literary theory developed during the 1930s\, aimed at raising and cultivating “Black consciousness”. Drawing on a surrealist style their work often explored the experience of diasporic being\, asserting ones’ self and identity\, and ideas of home\, home-going and belonging and inspired the birth of many movements across the Afro-Diasporic world\, including Afro-Surrealism\, Creolite in the Caribbean\, and black is beautiful in the United States. \nThis is a dual language anthology in collaboration with the Alliance Francaise de Philadelphie. \nJoin us as contributors to this new Moonstone Anthology read their work. \n 
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