Black Label and other poems Léon Gontrant Damas
Black Label and other poems Léon Gontrant Damas
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Along with his friends Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas is considered the third “founding father” of the Negritude movement.
The poetic work of Léon-Gontran Damas expresses, proclaims, claims a deep sense of racial belonging, but without bright flashes or triumphant accents. The existential malaise of the black being is here a torturing malaise that knows respite only in the derision and lucidity conquered by a direct word, in short hooks and uppercuts one would say, since it often adopts the rhythm of a boxer in combat. Black-Label, the long lament poem by Damas, has become over the years like the wounded hymn of the black soul. There, the desires, the frustrations, the wanderings of the soul of Africa arise in complaints, songs, reveries and revolts. The words that surge through Damas have a taste of wild blood, a drive of black blood that mixes fury with disenchantment.
The poetic work of Léon-Gontran Damas expresses, proclaims, claims a deep sense of racial belonging, but without bright flashes or triumphant accents. The existential malaise of the black being is here a torturing malaise that knows respite only in the derision and lucidity conquered by a direct word, in short hooks and uppercuts one would say, since it often adopts the rhythm of a boxer in combat. Black-Label, the long lament poem by Damas, has become over the years like the wounded hymn of the black soul. There, the desires, the frustrations, the wanderings of the soul of Africa arise in complaints, songs, reveries and revolts. The words that surge through Damas have a taste of wild blood, a drive of black blood that mixes fury with disenchantment.
