Revolutionary literature: considerations about the black movement in the Antilles

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.226871

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Blackness, Literary Movement, Revolutionary Movement, Antillean literature

Abstract

This paper aims to offer some reflections on Negritude, the most significant movement of Afro-descendant literary and intellectual expression. With regard to Antillean literatures, Chancé (2005) states that they arose from a shared historical process marked by various events, including colonization, the extermination of the Carib peoples, the revolt of the enslaved, and Antillean decolonization, among others. In this context, the Negritude Movement emerges as a revolutionary expression, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, regarded as “the first movement of affirmation of Black values, identity, and the culture of the descendants of enslaved people in the Diaspora” (SOUZA, 2006, p. 23).

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  • REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN THE ANTILLES, City hall

    This work aims to make some considerations about Negritude, the largest movement of literary and/or revolutionary expression of African descent. With regard to Antillean literature, Chancé (2005) states that they were born from the same historical process, formed by several events, including colonization, the extermination of the Caribbean peoples, the slave revolution, Antillean decolonization, between others. In this context, the Negritude Movement emerged, which was born under the influences of the Harlem Black Renaissance, “the first movement to affirm black values, identity and culture of descendants of slaves in the Diaspora” (SOUZA, 2006: p. 23).

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2025-11-16

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Dossier - Between Images, Words, and Screens: Challenges, Transversalities, and Reinventions in Latin American Art

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Revolutionary literature: considerations about the black movement in the Antilles (R. L. C. A. T. B. M. I. T. A. REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN THE ANTILLES , Trans.). (2025). Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 24(51), e​226871. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2025.226871