User:Arl 67/Une Tempête

Historical Context
Aimé Césaire,a French Martinican poet, writer, and politician, coined the term "Négritude," in his Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, 1939). Césaire defined it as the recognition and acceptance of being black, along with a sense of pride in black history and culture. From its inception, Négritude was an international movement that “emerged through the work of a small group of Black poets and intellectuals based in Paris,” aimed to celebrate Black culture and identity and challenge the dominant Western narratives that had been used to justify colonialism and slavery. Négritude drew inspiration from the African American cultural renaissance of the Harlem Renaissance and found a place in the French literary canon. The movement emerged in the 1930s and was led by writers and intellectuals such as Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas Césaire's play, "Une Tempête" can be seen as a continuation of this movement, as it seeks to challenge the dominant Western narrative about Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and offer an alternative perspective on the legacy of colonialism in the Caribbean.