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A 1 page analysis of the role that negritude plays in the poem 'Black Woman' by Leopold Sedar Senghor, who, as a writer, embodied the philosophy of negritude into everything that he wrote‹his writing, particularly his poetry, speaks from the heart of a black man, giving a black perspective that comes from black experience. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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one of Senghors biographers, describes negritude as the task of the black man to "assimilate without letting himself be assimilated" (13). Sartre defined negritude as an effective attitude toward the
world (Ba 87). In essence, negritude refers to the fact that in white culture, the word "black" has a negative connotation. Within the realm of negritude, black is celebrated, glorified
and expressed in ways that had never occurred before the writing of black authors in the first half of the century who followed this philosophy. In Senghors poem "Black
Woman," the poet paints a tribute to black womanhood that is the equivalent of a Renaissance painting?it glorifies and idealizes the black female form. Naked woman, black woman
Clothed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty! (Senghor 190). In this poem, Senghor intentionally sets out to reverse the negative connotations
that "blackness" has within the culture of Western civilization (Ba 88). Also the body of the woman is described in geographical terms that associated the female form with that
of Africa, herself. This haunting imagery connects the female with the land, and, thereby, evokes a spiritual quality to the poem. The reality that the poem depicts is,
therefore, purely African. It speaks of a passionate attachment to the land that works through the female to connect all to the vibrancy of life that is Africa. This sort
of combining of spirituality with sexuality speaks of a pagan relationship with the land that is African, without any of the sterility and detachment from nature that is found in
European religious belief. The writing of modern day African women such as Mariama Ba and Maryse Conde shows that the spirit of negritude is still alive within the literary
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