Beyond Negritude

Paulette Nardal, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Description

In the aftermath of World War II, Paulette Nardal, the Martinican woman most famously associated with the Negritude movement and its founders Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, and Léon Damas during Paris's interwar years, founded the journal Woman in the City. This annotated translation, with an introduction and essay summaries by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, collects work from that journal, and presents it in both the original French and in English. Never before translated, these essays represent a lens through which to view the evolution of Nardal's intellectual thought on race, gender, politics, globalization, war, religion, and philosophy. The journal's arrival announced Martinican women entering the public sphere—the city—and from its internationalist perspectives, the world stage where they would take up their responsibilities as citizens of their little island and the greater French Republic. Published from 1945 to 1951, it was, with its Christian humanist undertones and feminist inclinations, the first theologically and philosophically woman-centered liberationist journal in print.
Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Race, Rights, and Women
T. Denean SharpleyWhiting

Paulette Nardal’s Woman in the City
Annotated Translation by T. Denean SharpleyWhiting

1. Woman in the City (January 1945)

2. Setting the Record Straight (February 1945)

3. From an Electoral Point of View (March 1945)

4. Poverty Does Not Wait (May 1945)

5. Martinican Women and Social Action (October 1945)

6. And Now, What Are Our Objectives? (November 1945)

7. To Work (February 1946)

8. Martinican Women and Politics (July 1946)

9. Facing History (October 1946)

10. Abstention: A Social Crime (November 1946)

11. United Nations (January 1947)

12. About a Crime (October 1948)

13. On Intellectual Laziness (November 1948)

14. Editorial (July 1951)

Selected Bibliography of Paulette Nardal’s Writings

Index

Sujets

• Philosophy
• Ethnic studies
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 07 février 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781438429489
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Beyond Negritude

SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors

Beyond Negritude Essays fromWoman in the City

PAULETTE NARDAL Translated with an introduction and notes by T. DENEAN SHARPLEY-WHITING

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Nardal, Paulette, 1896–  Beyond negritude : essays from Woman in the city / Paulette Nardal ; translated with an introduction and note by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.  p. cm. — (SUNY series, philosophy and race)  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-1-4384-2947-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)  ISBN 978-1-4384-2946-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)  1. Black race—History. 2. Women, Black—Martinique—Social conditions. 3. Martinique—Politics and government. 4. Women, Black— Intellectual life. I. Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. II. Femme dans la cité. III. Title.

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In memory of the intellectual legacy of Paulette Nardal

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Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: On Race, Rights, and Women T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Paulette Nardal’sWoman in the City Annotated Translation by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

 1Woman in the City1945) (January

 2Setting the Record Straight (February 1945)

 3From an Electoral Point of View1945) (March

 4Poverty Does Not Wait(May 1945)

 5Martinican Women and Social Action (October 1945)

 6 And Now, What Are Our Objectives?1945) (November

 7To Work1946) (February

 8Women and Politics Martinican  (July 1946)

 9Facing History (October 1946)

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Abstention: A Social Crime (November 1946)

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United Nations (January 1947)

About a Crime1948) (October

On Intellectual Laziness1948) (November

Editorial1951) (July

Selected Bibliography of Paulette Nardal’s Writings

Index

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