The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory W.E.B. Du Bois the New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance and its posthistory Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism. By viewing Negritude as an insurgent idea to invoke this books intentionally incendiary subtitle as opposed to merely a form of poetics and aesthetics The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a traveling theory a la Edward Saids concept that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century from Harlem to Haiti Haiti to Paris Paris to Martinique Martinique to Senegal and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of protoNegritude concepts from Du Boiss discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to postNegritude concepts in Fanons Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. Utilizing Negritude as a conceptual framework to on the one hand explore the Africana intellectual tradition in the twentieth century and on the other hand demonstrate discursive continuity between Du Bois and Fanon as well as the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Movement The Negritude Movement ultimately accents what Negritude contributed to arguably its greatest intellectual heir Frantz Fanon and the development of his distinct critical theory Fanonism. Rabaka argues that if Fanon and Fanonism remain relevant in the twentyfirst century then to a certain extent Negritude remains relevant in the twentyfirst century. show more