Round 9: Tossup 7

In a poem from this language, the speaker warns how “jealous fate” will turn people to ashes to “feed the roots of life.” One of “three fathers” of a movement in this language wrote the poetry collection Pigments. A “lousy pig” is told to beat it “At the end of daybreak” to begin a long poem written (15[1])in this language titled “Notebook of a Return to My Native Land.” Poetry in this language was the subject of the essay (*) Black Orpheus. Along with Léopold Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire used this language to begin the Négritude movement. For 10 points, name this language (-5[1])used by 20th (10[1])century poets from Martinique and Senegal. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: French [or française]
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