Histoire sociale d’une idée négro-africaine : la circulation transnationale de la négritude

Abstract

Coined at Paris during the 1930s, la Negritude has progressively broke away from the contingency of both its origin and pioneers becoming the leitmotiv of several generations of writers native of Africa and Caribbee who borrowed it although they reappraised it. La Negritude has then travelled within time and space outlining a transnational trajectory that this research aims at restoring. Through that circulatory prism drawing its inspiration from social history of political ideas and travelling theory, this paper presents the original understanding of la Negritude and its diasporic nature due to its both dispersion within the francophone space and problematical transfer into Anglophone area. The paper reports next institutional initiatives that were central to the transnational making of la Negritude.

Keywords

• Africa
• Europe
• Negritude
• transnational circulation of ideas
• cultural transfer
• Aimé Césaire