« Situation d’Orphée noir » : Sartre et Césaire

After the inaugural “negro ­cry” of Cahier ­d’un retour au pays natal, the Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française by Senghor, with a preface by Sartre entitled “Orphée ­noir”, established Negritude as a poetic movement to which ­Sartre’s notoriety and aura imparted a philosophical and global political resonance ­comparable to existentialism.