 Whether Dadié and this collection were part of the Négritude movement or not is a matter of some discussion.Irving said "he differs from many of other black writers...in that he never joined the Negritude movement"; Charlotte Bruner, however, called him one of the "so-called 'founders' of the Negritude movement".Clive Walker says "Dadié, as author of "The Black Cloth"..., belongs to the 'Negritude' generation", and explains