frlit1-10, Exercise 2: Negritude

Model answer:

Negritude was a literary and political movement begun by black students and writers in Paris in the 1930s that affirmed African identity and culture against colonial assumptions. Aime Cesaire of Martinique and Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal were founding figures. It shows writers using French to argue with France because they wrote in the colonial language and published through French literary institutions, yet used them to challenge colonial views, and Senghor was eventually elected to the Academie francaise.

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