Léon-Gontran Damas

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Léon-Gontran Damas was a French Guianese poet, politician, and pioneering anti-colonial thinker who co-founded the Négritude movement alongside Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Léon-Gontran Damas canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Négritude writer ⓘ
anti-colonial thinker ⓘ
essayist ⓘ
human ⓘ
poet ⓘ
politician ⓘ
burialPlace Cayenne ⓘ
coFounded Négritude ⓘ
linked to: Negritude
coFounderWith Aimé Césaire ⓘ
Léopold Sédar Senghor ⓘ
continentOfOrigin South America ⓘ
countryOfBirth French Guiana ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship France ⓘ
countryOfDeath United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1912-03-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1978-01-22 ⓘ
educatedAt Lycée Victor-Schœlcher ⓘ
linked to: Lycée Schoelcher

University of Paris ⓘ
ethnicGroup French Guianan ⓘ
linked to: French Guiana
familyName Damas ⓘ
fieldOfWork African diaspora studies ⓘ
anti-colonialism ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
genre poetry ⓘ
political essay ⓘ
givenName Léon-Gontran ⓘ
influenced later Négritude writers ⓘ
influencedBy Aimé Césaire ⓘ
Léopold Sédar Senghor ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName French ⓘ
memberOf French National Assembly ⓘ
movement Négritude ⓘ
linked to: Negritude
notableIdea Black cultural affirmation ⓘ
critique of colonialism ⓘ
notableWork Pigments ⓘ
Retour de Guyane ⓘ
occupation essayist ⓘ
poet ⓘ
politician ⓘ
writer ⓘ
partOf Caribbean literature ⓘ
Francophone literature ⓘ
placeOfBirth Cayenne ⓘ
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C. ⓘ
positionHeld Deputy of the French National Assembly ⓘ
representedInLegislature French Guiana ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
taughtAt Howard University ⓘ
workLocation French Guiana ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ

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Negritude → hasFounder → Léon-Gontran Damas ⓘ
Negritude → associatedWithPerson → Léon-Gontran Damas ⓘ
Aimé Césaire → coFoundedWith → Léon-Gontran Damas ⓘ
Pigments → author → Léon-Gontran Damas ⓘ