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Dominique Pagani takes up négritude in 2017, starting from Adotevi's book Négritude et négrologues. He sees it as a polemical concept, necessary at first to found an identity, which then becomes more of a burden than a liberation, like the nation after the awakening of nationalities1. At first a fruitful moment in a struggle for recognition, it becomes a brake that pulls backwards2. He distinguishes two versions. Césaire contrasts Senghor's happy négritude with a négritude of suffering, that of the Antilles, where "nègre" is an insult3. In Senghor, it is a cultural concept and a poetic discourse, meant to describe the Black condition to white people, and not a concept for struggle4. He reports Adotevi's criticism, which reproaches both poets for a theoretical incompleteness: négritude only makes sense if it leads to independence5. The audience asks him whether it is anti-universalist. He answers that it must not be a place of confinement, but must open up and reach out to everyone6.
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Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)