• André Cabassou. Léon Damas was born in Cayenne, French Guiana, to Ernest Damas, a mulatto of European and African descent, and Bathilde Damas, a Metisse of...
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  • Abdoulaye Sadji, Léopold Sédar Senghor (the first President of Senegal), and Léon Damas of French Guiana. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, racism...
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  • Look up Damas or damas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Damas may refer to: Damas-aux-Bois, a village in northeastern France Damas-et-Bettegney, a...
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  • Perspectives on Léon Gontran Damas, ed. Keith Warner. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1988. From her unpublished thesis, "The Writings of Léon Damas and Their...
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    African descent from the Caribbean, such as René Maran from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana in South America, the works of Hughes helped to inspire...
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  • Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas Black is beautiful, a cultural movement that began in the United States...
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    Césaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Césaire had met Léon Damas there; later in Paris, France, they would join with Léopold Senghor, a...
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  • Indies: 62. Jones, Bridget (1979). "Léon Damas and His 'Riding Horse'". In Racine, Daniel L. (ed.). Léon-Gontran Damas, 1912–1978, Founder of Negritude:...
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  • along with Senegalese poet Léopold Senghor and French Guianese writer Léon Damas. It was not until relatively recently, however, that the women involved...
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  • literary movement spearheaded by Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas in the 1930s. Négritude writers sought to define themselves in terms of...
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  • then a poet but later Senegal's first President. Césaire, Senghor, and Léon Damas, with whom Césaire had gone to school in Martinique at the Lycée Schœlcher...
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    oleanders – white and pink – will perfume the Signare. With Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas, Senghor created the concept of Négritude, an important intellectual movement...
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  • Honychurch Jean Rhys Léon Bertrand Justin Catayée Félix Éboué Gaston Monnerville Victor Schœlcher Christiane Taubira Léon Damas Ludovic Baal Alexis Claude-Maurice...
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    incognito into a family store in Cayenne. Élie Castor, politician and author Léon Damas, poet and politician Eddy Gaumont, jazz musician Antoine Karam, politician...
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  • sonnet" and notes that it was McKay's first to reach a "wider audience". Léon Damas quoted part of the poem in his 1937 book of poetry Pigments. McKay, an...
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  • Bertila Damas is a Cuban-born American actress. Damas began her career in Miami, where she worked in Spanish-language theater while in college. She was...
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  • Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor (a future President of Senegal), and Léon Damas of French Guiana. Négritude intellectuals disapproved of French colonialism...
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  • Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Dox Razakandrainy Elie Rajaonarison Aimé Césaire Léon Damas Harlem Renaissance "Jacques Rabemananjara - Library of Congress". id.loc...
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  • Césaire, writer Maryse Condé, writer Raphaël Confiant, writer and academic Léon Damas, writer Gerty Dambury, writer, educator and theatre director from Guadeloupe...
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  • Salvador, p/nf/f) Kathleen Dalziel (1881–1969, S Africa/Australia, p) Léon Damas (1912–1978, France, nf/p) Antonio Damasio (born 1944, Portugal/US, nf)...
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    Auguste Carrière Gérard Chaliand Jean-François Champollion Henry Corbin Léon Damas Luc-Willy Deheuvels Jean-Luc Domenach Mathias Énard Philippe Étienne Bernard...
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    December 1990. Poetry portal Madagascar portal History portal Aimé Césaire Léon Damas Harlem Renaissance Jacques Rabemananjara Elie Rajaonarison Ny Avana Ramanantoanina...
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  • Césaire, the latter whom created, along with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas the literary review L'Étudiant Noir, which was a forerunner of the Négritude...
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    review L'Étudiant noir (The Black Student) with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas. Manifestos by these three students in its third number (May–June 1935)...
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  • Pepper Clark, Gabriel Okara, Dennis Brutus, Kofi Awoonor, Andrew Salkey, Léon Damas, Ama Ata Aidoo, Cyprian Ekwensi, Alex La Guma, Bloke Modisane, Birago...
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  • Francophone intellectuals during the 1930s by Martinican poet Aimé Césaire with Léon Damas, Léopold Sédar Senghor. Other important figures included Paulette Nardal...
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  • Cornuau TV movie 2014 Murder in Pacot The man Raoul Peck (2) La vie pure Léon Damas Jeremy Banster Le dos rouge Scottie Antoine Barraud Voilà l'enchaînement...
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  • – Peruvian football player Stephen Curry – American basketball player Léon Damas – French Guianese writer Edwidge Danticat – Haitian-American author Charlie...
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    including The Rim of Space; in Aldershot, England (d. 1984).[citation needed] Léon Damas, French poet, promoter of the négritude movement in France; in Cayenne...
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    the papers of Lawrence Brown (1893–1973), Melva L. Price, Ralph Bunche, Léon Damas, William Pickens, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Clarence Cameron White. The collection...
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