Beyond Negritude
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Beyond Negritude

Essays from Woman in the City

  1. 119 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond Negritude

Essays from Woman in the City

About this book

Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.

In the aftermath of World War II, Paulette Nardal, the Martinican woman most famously associated with the Negritude movement and its founders Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, and Léon Damas during Paris's interwar years, founded the journal Woman in the City. This annotated translation, with an introduction and essay summaries by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, collects work from that journal, and presents it in both the original French and in English. Never before translated, these essays represent a lens through which to view the evolution of Nardal's intellectual thought on race, gender, politics, globalization, war, religion, and philosophy. The journal's arrival announced Martinican women entering the public sphere-the city-and from its internationalist perspectives, the world stage where they would take up their responsibilities as citizens of their little island and the greater French Republic. Published from 1945 to 1951, it was, with its Christian humanist undertones and feminist inclinations, the first theologically and philosophically woman-centered liberationist journal in print.

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Table of contents

  1. Beyond Negritude
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: On Race, Rights, and Women
  5. Paulette Nardal's Woman in the City Annotated Traslation by T. Deman Sharpley-Whiting
  6. 1. Woman in the City(January 1945)
  7. 2. Setting the Record Straight(February 1945)
  8. 3. From an Electoral Point of View(March 1945)
  9. 4. Poverty Does Not Wait(May 1945)
  10. 5. Martinican Women and Social Action(October 1945)
  11. 6. And Now, What Are Our Objectives?(November 1945)
  12. 7. To Work(February 1946)
  13. 8. Martinican Women and Politics(July 1946)
  14. 9. Facing History(October 1946)
  15. 10. Abstention: A Social Crime(November 1946)
  16. 11. United Nations(January 1947)
  17. 12. About a Crime(October 1948)
  18. 13. On Intellectual Laziness(November 1948)
  19. 14. Editorial(July 1951)
  20. Selected Bibliography of Paulette Nardal’s Writing
  21. Index