1. Negritude:
Newyork and
Telephonic Conversation
Kuvadiya Deepika
Paper-African Literature
Roll no- 04
Seem-4
Year-2012-13

2. Negritude means
state or condition of being black
 a consciousness of and pride in the
cultural and physical aspects of the
African heritage

3. Negritude is a literary and ideological
movement, developed by francophone black
intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in
the 1930s.
Negritude is one’s biological make-up(Race) and
one’s outer look (Skin color) as well as inner
(Sprit).

4. Newyork
Listen to the distant beating of your
nocturnal ;
New York! I say New York, let black
blood flow into your blood heart.
And on the seventh slept a deep Negro.
sleep.

5. Telephonic
Conversation
“HOW DARK?”...I had not misheard. ...“ARE YOU LIGHT
OR VERY DARK?”
“ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.
“You mean — like plain or milk chocolate?