Negritude
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈnɛɡɹɪtjuËd/
Origin
From French négritude (coined by Aimé Césaire), from nègre ("Negro") + -tude.
Full definition of negritude
Noun
negritude
(uncountable)- The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. from 20th c.
- 1969, Richard A. Long, Perspective: Negritude in Black World/Negro Digest, May 1969, Johnson Publishing, page 11:Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.
- 1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, ISBN 9780521211956, CUP Archive, page 144:Long before Negritude had become a war-cry among the Black intellectuals of the Left Bank, Caribbean writers had been composing verses in French that were purely derivative, evoking the Parnassian and neo-Romantic influences of the end of the last century.
- 2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, ISBN 9780813535524, Rutgers University Press, page 185:In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 91:Another important thing about “CLR,†as he was known in our little movement, was his disdainful opposition to any Third World fetishism or half-baked negritude.