{"id":27003,"title":"L.G. Damas, ed., \"Latitudes Françaises Volume I: Poètes d'Expression Française [d'Afrique Noire, Madagascar, Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Indochine, Guyane] 1900 - 1945","dimensions":"19,2 x 14,2 x 2,2 cm","date_begin":"1947-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Negritude","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eL.G. Damas, ed., \u0026quot;French Latitudes Volume I: French-speaking Poets [from Black Africa, Madagascar, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Indochina, Guyana]\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nPublished by \u0026Eacute;ditions du Seuil\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFirst edition\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":24,"permalink":"l-g-damas-ed-latitudes-francaises-volume-i-poetes-d-expression-francaise-d-afrique-noire-madagascar-reunion-guadeloupe-martinique-indochine-guyane-1900-1945","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/177/medium_500/Image000295.jpg?1598952451","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/177/large/Image000295.jpg?1598952451","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA, Published by Éditions du Seuil","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eL\u0026eacute;on-Gontran Damas (1912-1978) was a French poet, politician, and one of the founders of the N\u0026eacute;gritude movement together with Aim\u0026eacute; C\u0026eacute;saire and L\u0026eacute;opold Senghor. This anthology was published in 1947 a year before Senghor\u0026rsquo;s pivotal work \u003cem\u003eAnthologie de la nouvelle po\u0026eacute;sien\u0026egrave;gre et malgache de langue fran\u0026ccedil;aise\u003c/em\u003e (Anthology of New Negro and Malagasy Poetry in French) and served as a manifesto for the movement. It contains poems by French-speaking authors from six regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, The Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique), Guyana, Indochina, Madagascar and R\u0026eacute;union island, with many of the poems published for the first time. The publication is significant in a political sense as it represents an attempt by colonial-era writers to deconstruct and transform French language and culture, in order to create a new and authentic poetic language and culture, \u0026ldquo;equal and fraternal to the French one\u0026rdquo;. In the introduction, Damas pays tribute to \u0026Eacute;tienne L\u0026eacute;ro (1910-1939), who is considered to be the first French poet of African descent to publicly identify himself as a Surrealist. Surrealism, with its ideas of refusal of bourgeois society and its privilege of the unconscious in its quest for freedom and self-fulfilment, was adopted by some N\u0026eacute;gritude theoreticians. Moreover, it provided them with an emancipatory approach to the language. Forging nouns, inventing names (like the term N\u0026eacute;gritude itself), breaking with orthodoxies and introducing new rhythms and styles of typography, they sought to find the ways to transform the coloniser\u0026rsquo;s language into a language of their own.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eL\u0026eacute;on-Gontran Damas (1912-1978) was een Franse dichter en politicus en samen met Aim\u0026eacute; C\u0026eacute;saire en L\u0026eacute;opold Senghor een van de oprichters van de n\u0026eacute;gritude\u0026#39;- beweging. Deze bloemlezing werd in 1947 gepubliceerd, een jaar voor Senghors belangrijke\u003cem\u003e Anthologie de la nouvelle po\u0026eacute;sie n\u0026egrave;gre et malgache de langue fran\u0026ccedil;aise\u003c/em\u003e (Anthologie van de nieuwe Franstalige neger- en Malagassische po\u0026euml;zie) en diende als manifest voor de beweging. Ze bevat gedichten van Franstalige auteurs uit zes regio\u0026#39;s: Sub-Sahara Afrika, de Antillen (Guadeloupe en Martinique), Guyana, Indochina, Madagaskar en R\u0026eacute;union, met veel gedichten die voor het eerst werden gepubliceerd. De publicatie is in politiek opzicht belangrijk omdat het om een poging is van schrijvers uit de koloniale periode om de Franse taal en cultuur te deconstrueren en te transformeren en een nieuwe en authentieke po\u0026euml;tische taal en cultuur te cre\u0026euml;ren die \u0026#39;gelijk is aan\u0026#39; de Franse en er \u0026#39;broederlijk\u0026#39; naast staat. In de inleiding brengt Damas hulde aan \u0026Eacute;tienne L\u0026eacute;ro (1910-1939), die wordt beschouwd als de eerste Franse dichter van Afrikaanse afkomst die zichzelf openlijk surrealist noemde. Het surrealisme, dat de burgerlijke samenleving afwees en in zijn zoektocht naar vrijheid en zelfontplooiing het onbewuste een bevoorrechte positie gaf, was een inspiratie voor de theoretici van de n\u0026eacute;gritude. Het verschafte hen bovendien een instrument om het Frans emancipatorisch te benaderen. In hun zoektocht naar manieren om de taal van de kolonisator te transformeren tot een eigen taal smeedden ze nieuwe woorden, verzonnen namen (de term \u0026#39;n\u0026eacute;gritude\u0026#39; zelf), verwierpen orthodoxe zienswijzen, en introduceerden nieuwe ritmes en typografische stijlen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}