André Breton

Damas was also the first Black writer to address the impact of colonization on the psyche of the colonized.

Pan-African Profile: Léon Damas Co-Founder of Négritude Movement

[Léon Damas] Black Past: “In 1934, the three founded the journal L’Étudiant Noir, a platform for a pan-Africanist literary and cultural movement that Damas, ...

The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, would be founded on these ideas.

Pan-African Profile: Aimé Césaire Co-Founder of Negritude Movement

[Aimé Césaire\Negritude Movement] BlackPast: “The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization. The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, ...