Imagining Africa: Négritude and Primitivism in Corps perdu
| dc.contributor.advisor | Anyinefa, Koffi, 1959- | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | McKee, C. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kerper, Alyssa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-04T20:34:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-04T20:34:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My thesis explores the way Pablo Picasso and Aimé Césaire claim Africa as a source of inspiration in their jointly-published book Corps perdu , an illustrated volume of poetry released in Paris in 1950. I look at the way Négritude, Césaire's guiding philosophy, and primitivism, an art movement popularized by Picasso, rely on a vision of Africa as both the romanticized home of "primitive," pre-colonized culture and as the site of horrific violence and exploitation. Using both text and image as evidence, I argue that the book mobilizes this conception of Africa in order to amplify the black voice in twentieth-century European culture | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Haverford College. Department of French and Francophone Studies | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Bryn Mawr College. Department of History of Art | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10066/22650 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights.access | Bi-College users only | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Césaire, Aimé. Corps perdu | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Césaire, Aimé -- Criticism and interpretation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Negritude (Literary movement) | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Primitivism -- France | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Africans in art | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Africans in literature | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Africans -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century | |
| dc.title | Imagining Africa: Négritude and Primitivism in Corps perdu | |
| dc.type | Thesis |