Afryka w twórczości Blaise’a Cendrarsa: kontrowersje wokół Murzyńskich bajeczek dla dzieci białych ludzi

Abstract

The article concers a discussion about Little Black Stories for Little White Children (Petits contes nègres pour les enfants des blancs) (1928) renewed in 2018 by the publisher Gallimard Jeunesse. Cendrars was an artist who influenced the French art movements of the 1920s and ‘30s. He was also fascinated with Black Africa. His collection of African child folk tales, Little Black Stories for Little White Children, was ground-breaking in its sympathetic and non-racist respect for African folk culture. In spite of Cendrars’ attitude, expressed in personal life and in his works, Little Black Stories was accused of racism and negrophobia when a new edittion ocurred in 2018. This paper proposes an afterthought about these accusations.