Negritude is the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture as Cesaire stated. Negritude was an international movement. Negritude is a literary and ideological movement that was led by black writers that spoke french and were intellectual. This was an influential movement.
Der gilgul by:jerome rothenberg
1
he picks a coin up
from the ground
it burns his hand
like ashes it is red
& marks him as it marks
the others hidden
he is hidden in the forest
in a world of nails
his dibbik fills him
2
Each night another one would hang himself. Airless boxcars.
Kaddish. "What will they do with us?" The brown & black
spots on their bellies. So many clothes. The field was littered.
Ten thousand corpses in one place. Arranged in layers. I am
moving down the field from right to left—reversing myself at
every step. The ground approaches. Money. And still his great-
est fear was that he would lose his shoes.
3
earth, growing fat with
the slime of corpses green & pink
that ooze like treacle, turn
into a kind of tallow
that are black
at evening that absorb
all light
1
he picks a coin up
from the ground
it burns his hand
like ashes it is red
& marks him as it marks
the others hidden
he is hidden in the forest
in a world of nails
his dibbik fills him
2
Each night another one would hang himself. Airless boxcars.
Kaddish. "What will they do with us?" The brown & black
spots on their bellies. So many clothes. The field was littered.
Ten thousand corpses in one place. Arranged in layers. I am
moving down the field from right to left—reversing myself at
every step. The ground approaches. Money. And still his great-
est fear was that he would lose his shoes.
3
earth, growing fat with
the slime of corpses green & pink
that ooze like treacle, turn
into a kind of tallow
that are black
at evening that absorb
all light
this poem discusses a man being possessed like others and hidden in a forest. there is an example of imagery and hyperbole in the poem when it states "he is hidden in the forest in a world of nails." this is giving a image of where he may be. the author is exaggerating about the world being of nails but getting his point across. "his dibbik fills him." a dibbik is a spirit and possesses the body of a living person. he was kidnapped. the question is who kidnapped him? people killed themselves daily "each night another one would hang himself", he was walking through the fields and saw dead bodies stacked in layers. "ten thousand corpses in one place." the slime of corpses started to form something hard also known as tallow. it is dark in the evening and it absorbs light.