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National Consciousness
An attempt to raise black identity and culture throughout the African diaspora. Negritude and other frameworks and movements to elevate and legitimize black culture rely on a unifying African culture, which Fanon argues is impossible and counterproductive to the fight for legitimacy in the postcolonial world. Culture is national, Fanon argues, not continental, and the only thing that different black cultures and nations have in common is that they all “[define] themselves in relation to whites.”
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Negritude Term Timeline in The Wretched of the Earth
The timeline below shows where the term Negritude appears in The Wretched of the Earth. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: On National Culture
“Negro” literature, Fanon says, is an example of negritude, and its writers do not hesitate to go beyond the continent of Africa. Negritude has...
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...people from Africa is that they all “define themselves in relation the whites.” Thus, the negritude movement is seriously limited. “Negro” culture is breaking up because those who represent it have...
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Chapter 4: Mutual Foundations for National Culture and Liberation Struggles
...be defended by whites who believe in a “frozen image” of a specific type of negritude.
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