{"id":7974,"date":"2010-07-12T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2010-07-12T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:02:20","slug":"rene-louis-and-leopold-senghorian-negritude-as-a-black-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7974","title":{"rendered":"Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/summary\/v051\/51.4fabre.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\" target=\"_blank\">MFS Modern Fiction Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/toc\/mfs51.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 51, Number 4<\/a>, Winter 2005<br \/>\npages 921-935<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/mfs.2006.0008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michel Fabre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Randall Cherry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/jpe11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan P. (Paul) Eburne<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Comparative Literature and English<br \/>\n<em>Pennsylvania State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drawing from archival documentation of their long-standing literary relationship, this essay examines the correspondences between the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negritude\" target=\"_blank\">negritude<\/a> writings of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senghor\" target=\"_blank\">L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor<\/a> and the assimilationist thought of his literary precursor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren%C3%A9_Maran\" target=\"_blank\">Ren\u00e9 Maran<\/a>. It traces the history of Senghorian negritude as a theory of cultural intermixture or m\u00e9tissage. As Fabre demonstrates, Senghor&#8217;s ideas about the ethical and political significance of cultural hybridity, which emerged from his intellectual relations with transnational black figures of the 1920s and 1930s, aimed to counter biologically-rooted forms of racial essentialism with a notion of blackness\u2014what Senghor referred to as the &#8220;black soul&#8221;\u2014considered as a set of cultural properties.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase\u00a0the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/v051\/51.4fabre.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 921-935 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353\/mfs.2006.0008 Michel Fabre Randall Cherry Jonathan P. (Paul) Eburne, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Pennsylvania State University Drawing from archival documentation of their long-standing literary relationship, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[3312,3313,3311,3316,3315,3314,3310],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-jonathan-p-eburne","tag-jonathan-paul-eburne","tag-leopold-sedar-senghor","tag-mfs-modern-fiction-studies","tag-michel-fabre","tag-randall-cherry","tag-rene-maran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}