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Léon-Gontran Damas, 28 March 1912 – 22 January 1978

By The Public Archive | Published: March 28, 2012
Twenty years before Frantz Fanon had organized the concept of “the colonized personality” into psychoanalytic theory, Pigments, a book of poems published in 1937 by Leon Damas, revealed the anguish of what has come to be known by that term. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, “Leon Damas: Pigments and the Colonized Personality,” Black World/Negro Digest (January 1972) Race, ethnie, [...]
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