Negritude/Definition

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Negritude [r]:

A literary movement within the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s that came about when black writers joining together through the French language to assert their cultural identity. Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas and Léopold Sédar Senghor are generally regarded as the founders of the movement and the journal L’Etudiant noire.