Rediscovers the crucial role that women played in the influential Negritude movement. The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aim C saire, L opold S dar Senghor, and L on G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played...