Negrismo

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Afro-Caribbean cultural movement artistic movement literary movement

Negrismo was an early 20th-century Afro-Caribbean literary and artistic movement that celebrated Black culture, language, and rhythms, particularly in Cuban and broader Hispanic Caribbean contexts.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
negrismo	1
poem "Negro bembón"	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afro-Caribbean cultural movement ⓘ artistic movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
emergedInContextOf	Cuban literature ⓘ Latin American literature ⓘ surface form: Hispanic Caribbean literature
hasAestheticFeature	evocation of ritual and festivity ⓘ onomatopoeic representation of drums and music ⓘ syncopated rhythm in verse ⓘ use of Afro-Caribbean vernacular ⓘ
hasArtisticDomain	literature ⓘ music ⓘ poetry ⓘ visual arts ⓘ
hasCulturalFocus	Afro-Caribbean culture ⓘ Black culture ⓘ
hasGoal	integration of African-derived elements into national culture ⓘ valorization of Black culture in Hispanic Caribbean societies ⓘ
hasHistoricalContext	early 20th-century cultural nationalism in Latin America ⓘ post-slavery Caribbean societies ⓘ
hasKeyTheme	African-derived religions and rituals ⓘ anti-racist affirmation ⓘ celebration of African heritage ⓘ celebration of Black identity ⓘ cultural nationalism ⓘ folklore and oral tradition ⓘ music and dance imagery ⓘ representation of Afro-descendant life ⓘ use of Afro-Caribbean rhythms ⓘ use of popular speech ⓘ
hasLanguageContext	Caribbean Spanish ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
hasMainRegion	Caribbean ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Spanish West Indies ⓘ surface form: Hispanic Caribbean
hasMedium	magazines and literary journals ⓘ public recitals and performances ⓘ
hasPerspectiveOnRace	affirmation of Blackness as central to national identity ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	early 20th century ⓘ
influenced	Afro-Latin American literature ⓘ surface form: Afro-Caribbean literature Afro-Latin American literature ⓘ surface form: Afro-Latin American poetry later Black cultural movements in the Caribbean ⓘ
influencedBy	African diasporic culture ⓘ Afro-Caribbean dance ⓘ Afro-Cuban music ⓘ Caribbean oral traditions ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ
relatedTo	Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Negritude ⓘ surface form: Négritude

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latin American literature → hasMovement → Negrismo ⓘ

this entity surface form: negrismo

Motivos de son → hasPart → Negrismo ⓘ

this entity surface form: poem "Negro bembón"

Motivos de son → literaryMovement → Negrismo ⓘ

Sóngoro cosongo → literaryMovement → Negrismo ⓘ

West Indies Ltd. → literaryMovement → Negrismo ⓘ

Nicolás Guillén → movement → Negrismo ⓘ

Guillén → movement → Negrismo ⓘ

subject surface form: Nicolás Guillén