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1	The early struggle of black internationalism : intellectual interchanges among American and French black writers during the interwar period Gaetan, Maret January 2016 (has links) The thesis focuses on the interchanges which took place during the interwar period between the American and the French black communities. It explores the role of national and transnational frames of reference in the definition of the New Negro movement during the 1920s as well as in its reception by French black intellectuals during the 1930s. Black internationalism during the interwar period can be seen as a circuit of interconnections which resulted in multifaceted and shifting identifications encompassing national and transnational affiliations as well as, sometimes, a cosmopolitan sense of belonging. My work explores the difficulties and successes that the writers under consideration encountered at the time in their attempts to communicate with fellow black people across socio-cultural boundaries. Although, during the interwar period, the perspective shifted from a preeminence of local paradigms to an emphasis on diasporic views of the black race, the national and the transnational, understood as sites of social positioning, cultural self-definition, and political agency, remained inextricably intermingled. All the examples presented in the thesis show that literature, often understood as a national category, does not exist in a vacuum. It is constantly formed and informed through transnational exchanges. The American Harlem Renaissance depended on external sources of inspiration to come to existence. Not restricted to the United States, it then spread across territorialized borders and, in turn, affected the French black community, becoming a major influence in the emergence of Négritude. The thesis successively explores five defining instances of black internationalism: René Maran's Batouala (1921), Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925), black Parisian newspapers from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, Claude McKay's Banjo (1928), and the early theorization of Négritude. Through the use of Glissant's notion of detour, theorized in Le Discours antillais (1981), this thesis frames 'black internationalism' as a shifting web of negotiations expanding between national and transnational spaces.
2	L’homme pareil aux autres : stratégies et postures identitaires de l'écrivain afro-antillais à Paris (1920-1960)/ The man who is just like the others. Strategies and identities of African and Carribean writers in Paris (1920-1960) Bundu Malela, Buata 20 October 2006 (has links) Cette étude porte sur le fait littéraire afro-antillais de l’ère coloniale (1920-1960). Il s’agit d’examiner les stratégies des agents à partir des cas de René Maran, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant et Mongo Beti et de percevoir comment ils se définissent leur identité littéraire et sociale. Pour ce faire, notre démarche s’articule en deux temps : (1) examiner les conditions de possibilité d’un champ littéraire afro-antillais à Paris (colonisation française et ses effets, configuration d’un champ littéraire pré-institutionnalisé, etc.) ; (2) analyser les processus de consolidation du champ, ainsi que les luttes internes qui opposent deux tendances émergentes représentées d’abord par Senghor et Césaire, ensuite par Beti et Glissant, dont les prises de position littéraires mettent en œuvre des « modèles empiriques » ; ceux-ci régulent et unifient leurs rapports au monde et à l’Afrique. This study relates to afro-carribean literature in colonial period (1920-1960). We want to examine the strategies of agents like René Maran, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Mongo Beti ; and we want to understand how they invente literary and social identity. Our approach is structured in two steps: we shall analyse (1) the conditions for an afro-carribean literary field to appear in Paris (french colonialism and its consequences, configuration of literay field...) ; (2) the consolidation of this field and the internal struggles between two tendances represented by Senghor and Césaire, by Glissant and Beti whose literary practice shows the “empirical model” that regularizes and consolidates their relation with the world and Africa. Mongo Beti theory of field Léopold Sédar Senghor French studies african studies AFRIQUE colonialism ACCULTURATION LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR AIME CESAIRE LITTERATURE COMPAREE LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE SCHEMATISME ESCLAVAGE LITTERATURE AFRO-ANTILLAISE PHILOSOPHIE DE LA LITTERATURE LITTERATURE AFRICAINE ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES. SOCIOLOGIE DE LA LITTERATURE MONGO BETI ÉDOUARD GLISSANT INTERCULTURALITE COLONISATION LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE FRANCOPHONIE RENE MARAN LITTERATURE CARIBEENNE NEGRITUDE African and carribean literature Caribbean literature postcolonial studies sociology of literature Édouard Glissant Aimé Césaire négritude. René Maran acculturation interculturality schematism Africa

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The early struggle of black internationalism : intellectual interchanges among American and French black writers during the interwar period

L’homme pareil aux autres : stratégies et postures identitaires de l'écrivain afro-antillais à Paris (1920-1960)/ The man who is just like the others. Strategies and identities of African and Carribean writers in Paris (1920-1960)