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dc.identifier	ECF_article_9820
dc.title	Narrating Negritude in a Transmedia Way: The Case of the Rapper Youssoupha
dc.contributor.author	Aiuti Francesca
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2022/1/narrer-la-negritude-de-facon-transmediale-le-cas-d/
dc.description.abstract	French rap music provides an original contribution to literary exposition, redefinition and re-adaptation. As a postcolonial product, rap music rehabilitates the memory of an often forgotten colonial past and offers a new transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective on contemporary French society. Through his music, French-Congolese rapper Youssoupha enters into dialogue with French Martinican poet, author and politician Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature. Through the analysis of the albums Sur les chemins du retour (2007), Noir D**** (2012) and NGRTD (2015), the purpose of the present study is to investigate how Youssoupha unfolds and actualizes Césaire’s works and the concept of Négritude across multiple media channels.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 24 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-07
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/014
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aimé Césaire
dc.subject	Négritude
dc.subject	Rap music
dc.subject	Transmedia narratology
dc.subject	Youssoupha

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Narrating Negritude in a Transmedia Way: The Case of the Rapper Youssoupha

Francesca Aiuti Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italia

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abstract

French rap music provides an original contribution to literary exposition, redefinition and re-adaptation. As a postcolonial product, rap music rehabilitates the memory of an often forgotten colonial past and offers a new transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective on contemporary French society. Through his music, French-Congolese rapper Youssoupha enters into dialogue with French Martinican poet, author and politician Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature. Through the analysis of the albums Sur les chemins du retour (2007), Noir D**** (2012) and NGRTD (2015), the purpose of the present study is to investigate how Youssoupha unfolds and actualizes Césaire’s works and the concept of Négritude across multiple media channels.

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Dec. 19, 2022

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Oct. 3, 2022

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July 7, 2022

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Keywords: Youssoupha • Transmedia narratology • Aimé Césaire • Rap music • Négritude

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