Question
A poem titled whose title ends with this word by the Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (“RAH-bee-ah-ree-VEH-loh”) depicts the “glorious lure of the nubile mom” and envisions a flower that “becomes like a paper kite loosened from a sleepy child.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this word that opens the title of a poem about the Serer kingdom of Sine that depicts a “long gown of milk” and opens, “Woman, put on my forehead your balsam hands.”
ANSWER: night [or “Translated From the Night”; or “Night of Sine”; or nuit]
[10e] Rabearivelo (“RAH-bee-ah-ree-VEH-loh”), considered Africa's first modern poet, preceded this literary movement of Senegalese author Léopold Sédar Senghor and Martinican poet Aimé Césaire (“eh-MAY say-ZARE”), whose name is sometimes translated as “Blackness.”
ANSWER: Négritude
[10m] Rabearivelo's (“RAH-bee-ah-ree-VEH-loh’s”) poetry collections, such as The Cup of Ashes, are often grouped into this other literary movement. In a poem from this movement set amid tombs, the speaker states, “The wind is rising! … We must try to live!”
ANSWER: Symbolism [or symbolisme]
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