Rethinking Negritude through Leon-Gontran Damas analyses four cases in which Damasian Negritude shifted through generic experimentation: Pigments (1937), Retour de Guyane (1938), Veillees noires (1943) and Black-Label (1956). In doing so, it also advances scholarship on Damas (1912-1978) in two ways. On the one hand, it undertakes the crucial and in-depth research needed to challenge the understanding of Negritude as a bipartite (Cesaire and Senghor) phenomenon. On the other hand, it offers an innovative reading of Damas whose work deserves more complete...