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Léon Damas, the Glossary

Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912 – January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician.^[1]

22 relations: Aimé Césaire, American Society of African Culture, Callaloo (literary magazine), Cayenne, Christian Filostrat, Donald E. Herdeck, E. Ethelbert Miller, Folkways Records, French Army, French Guiana, L'Étudiant noir, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinique, Mulatto, National Assembly (France), Négritude, Paris, Poet, Politician, Présence Africaine, UNESCO, World War II.
French Guianan poets
French Guianan politicians
French Guianan writers
People from Cayenne

Aimé Césaire

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone Martinican poet, author, and politician. Léon Damas and Aimé Césaire are 20th-century French poets, Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic and French male poets.

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American Society of African Culture

The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was an organization of African-American writers, artists, and scholars.

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Callaloo (literary magazine)

Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine established in 1976 by Charles H. Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief.

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Cayenne

Cayenne (Kayenn) is the prefecture of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.

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Christian Filostrat

Christian Filostrat (born 1945) A 1994 Presidential Award recipient, Christian Filostrat is a senior American diplomat and a National War College alumnus.

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Donald E. Herdeck

Donald E. Herdeck (November 19, 1924 – April 20, 2005) was an American academic and publisher, and the founder in 1973 of Three Continents Press. Léon Damas and Donald E. Herdeck are Georgetown University faculty.

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E. Ethelbert Miller

Eugene Ethelbert Miller (born November 20, 1950) is an African-American poet, teacher and literary activist, based in Washington, DC.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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French Army

The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.

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L'Étudiant noir

, subtitled (roughly translated as "The Black Student, Monthly Journal of the Association of Martinique Students in France"), is a journal created by the Martinican Aimé Césaire in 1935 in Paris.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Léon Damas and Léopold Sédar Senghor are Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic, French Army personnel of World War II and French Section of the Workers' International politicians.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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National Assembly (France)

The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat).

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Négritude

Négritude (from French "nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness") is a framework of critique and literary theory, mainly developed by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians in the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Présence Africaine

Présence Africaine is a pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris, France, and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Damas

Also known as Léon-Gontran Damas, Lionel Georges André Cabassou, Léon Gontran Damas.