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Créolité is a literary and cultural movement that emerged in the French Caribbean in the late 1980s. Its founding manifesto, Éloge de la Créolité (1989), was…

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright and politician, and one of the founding figures of the Négritude movement. His long poem Notebook of a…

Patrick Chamoiseau (born 1953) is a Martinican novelist and one of the three authors of the foundational Créolité manifesto Éloge de la Créolité (1989). His novel…

Négritude is one of the most influential literary and intellectual movements of the 20th century. Born in Paris in the 1930s among Black francophone students from…