Romdenh-Romluc, K. (2024) Black Orpheus, Fanon and the Négritude Movement. Sartre Studies International, 30 (1). ISSN 1357-1559
Abstract
In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan Webber examines Fanon's engagement with the Negritude movement, focusing on his discussion in Black Skin, White Masks. A portion of Fanon's text discusses an interpretation of the movement advanced by Sartre in his essay ‘Black Orpheus’. Here, I raise some difficulties for what I will call Webber's ‘black agency’ reading of Fanon, before presenting an alternative. I argue that Fanon accepted certain important Negritude ideas, particularly Césaire's conception of a therapeutic method called the nekyia, and that this is crucial to understanding Fanon's response to Sartre.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 UKSS and NASS 2024. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Sartre Studies International. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | ‘Black Orpheus’; Césaire; colonialism; Fanon; the Negritude movement; Sartre |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number LEVERHULME TRUST (THE) RF-2021-139 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2024 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2025 13:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Berghahn Journals |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3167/ssi.2024.300106 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219197 |
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