An informal poll

[dhampyresa]

Without research, do you know who Léopold Sédar Senghor is?


Just trying to get a sense of how much context I need to give to quoting in the Black Panther fic I am writing.

Comments

[shadaras]

I did not know until I looked him up (but from brief research, he seems cool).

[dhampyresa]

Good to know, thank you! (He's pretty cool!)

[yhlee]

no, alas.

[dhampyresa]

Thanks for the answer!

[schneefink]

No idea, don't think I've ever heard the name.

[dhampyresa]

Useful info, thanks.

[muccamukk]

No idea whatsoever.

[dhampyresa]

Thanks for answering.

[sovay]

Without research, do you know who Léopold Sédar Senghor is?

Yes. I must have been five or six when I read a translation of "Je veux dire ton nom" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People (1985), accompanied by a photograph of the beautiful jasper Fragment of a Queen's Face. It was my favorite poem in the anthology. I looked him up on my own for the first time in high school.

[edit] YAY QUOTING LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR IN BLACK PANTHER FIC.

[dhampyresa]

Fragment of a Queen's Face
OMG THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED thank you so much! I saw a picture of it once in passing and it has haunted me (in a good way) ever since.

[sovay]

OMG THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED thank you so much! I saw a picture of it once in passing and it has haunted me (in a good way) ever since.

You're welcome! It was "Fragment of a head of Queen Tiye" when I was a child, but apparently there are now other contenders. I also love it very much.

[yuuago]

Never heard of him. Just looked him up and he seems interesting, though.

[dhampyresa]

Good to know, thank you!

[glinda]

I do not, though my brief research suggests that I'd be very interested to know more.

[dhampyresa]

Awesome, thank you!

[china_shop]

No idea.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you!

[corvidology]

For some reason I'm thinking poet but that's about it.

[dhampyresa]

You're thinking it because you're right! He was, among other things, a poet.

[kore]

Yes BUT it's because I learned about Négritude from either Black Skin, White Masks or Sartre (or maybe Aimé Césaire?) and I had to look him up to be sure. And as a poet/theorist, not an actual leader.

YAY BLACK PANTHER FIC

[dhampyresa]

Thank you for answering!

I can make no promises for when it will actually materialise, hahaha

[genarti]

The name rings a bell, but I couldn't have told you more than that without looking him up.

(Having looked him up: yes, I'm sure I heard his name as part of the contextualizing of some other Négritude authors whose works I read in French classes, and probably in looking up stuff about Senegal now and again. One of the many countries I really should know more about than I do.)

[dhampyresa]

This is good to know, thank you.

[hokuton_punch]

I am afraid I do not. /o\

[dhampyresa]

Don't worry about it, all data's good data <3

[ilyena_sylph]

Nope. (here on a network skim)

[dhampyresa]

Thank you so much for dropping by and answering!

[rachelmanija]

No.

[dhampyresa]

Good to know, thank you.