Sine and Seine
The Quest for Synthesis in Senghor's Life and Poetry
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9250127 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mildred Mortimer (0000-0002-8052-4853, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2002 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 38-50 |
| Data de publicação | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Editora | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2002.33.4.38 |
| OpenAlex | W2024814999 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
As a member of the group of American students, scholars, and teachers discovering Senegal during the 1970s, the first decade following independence, I came to know a country led by a poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor. In 1969, the year I arrived, President Senghor was elected to the French Academy of Moral Sciences, filling a chair vacated by the late Konrad Adenauer. In addition, the World Festival of Negro Arts, a highly successful conference that had brought thousands of visitors and hundreds of performing artists and writers to the Senegalese capital three years before had become a treasured memory. Highly esteemed abroad, Senghor was nevertheless facing increased criticism at home as economic problems grew more acute. With public dissatisfaction mounting, it is not surprising that university students took to the streets in 1972 and 1973. They were demanding better scholarships and an end to corruption and neocolonialism, i.e., Senegal's strong dependence upon France in the economic and political sectors. In this vein, Interior Minister Jean Collin, a French national who had taken Senegalese citizenship—and married into the Senghor family—was resented by many Senegalese. With increasing pressure to introduce reforms, the president reinstated the post of Prime Minister, naming Abdou Diouf, Senegal's subsequent president, to the position
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| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |