Materials in the UT-Austin Libraries’ Collection

For additional, author-specific materials in the UT Libraries' collections, please consult the Key Figures page.

Selected Books

• Ba, Sylvia Washington. The Concept of Négritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor. Princeton Legacy Library 1727. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400867134.
• Kennedy, Ellen Conroy. The Négritude Poets: An Anthology of Translations from the French. New York: Viking Press, 1975.
• Lewis, Shireen K. Race, Culture, and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité. Caribbean Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006.
• Miller, F. Bart. Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas. Francopolyphonies 16. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2014. Piquion, René. Les “trois grands” de la négritude. Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Impr. Henri Deschamps, 1959.
• Rabaka, Reiland. The Négritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea. Critical Africana Studies. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
• Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Négritude Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
• Thiam, Cheikh. Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-Envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Négritude. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2014.
• Vaillant, Janet G. Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Reprint 2014. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674864528.
• Wilder, Gary. Freedom Time: Négritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Duke University Press, 2015.

Selected Articles

• Bongie, Chris. “Aesthetics, Politics, and the Return of Négritude.” Comparative Literature 69, no. 2 (2017): 238–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3865423.
• Camara, Gamby Diagne. “Faces of Blackness: The Creation of the New Negro and Négritude Movements in Harlem and Paris.” Journal of Black Studies 51, no. 8 (2020): 846–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934720948737.
• Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. “In Praise of the Post-Racial: Négritude Beyond Négritude.” Third Text 24, no. 2 (2010): 241–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528821003722249.
• Galafa, Beaton. “Négritude in Anti-Colonial African Literature Discourse.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 12, no. 4 (2018): 287–98.
• Miller, Christopher L. “The (Revised) Birth of Négritude: Communist Revolution and ‘the Immanent Negro’ in 1935.” PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125, no. 3 (2010): 743–49. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2010.125.3.743.
• Schmidt, Simone Pereira. “Women, Négritude and the Construction of a Transnational Modernity.” Estudos Feministas 27, no. 1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n158957.