Poetics of Relation
Title | Poetics of Relation PDF eBook |
Author | Édouard Glissant |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780472066292 |
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
Title | Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Britton |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780813918495 |
Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Britton (French, Aberdeen U., Scotland) situates Glissant within ongoing debates in postcolonial theory, making connections between his novels and theoretical work and the work of Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhanha, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Focusing on language and subjectivity, discussion moves between analysis of Glissant's theoretical work and detailed readings of his novels. Major themes central to his writing, such as the reappropriation of history, standard and vernacular language, and the colonial construction of the Other, are addressed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Caribbean Discourse
Title | Caribbean Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Édouard Glissant |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813913735 |
Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.
Sun of Consciousness
Title | Sun of Consciousness PDF eBook |
Author | EDOUARD. GLISSANT |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781937658953 |
Glissant and the Middle Passage
Title | Glissant and the Middle Passage PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Drabinski |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-06-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1452960003 |
A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention to the catastrophe known as the Middle Passage. It is a history that requires its own ideas that emerge organically from the societies that experienced the Middle Passage and its consequences firsthand. Glissant and the Middle Passage offers a new, important approach to this neglected calamity by examining the thought of Édouard Glissant, particularly his development of Caribbeanness as a critical concept rooted in the experience of the slave trade and its aftermath in colonialism. In dialogue with key theorists of catastrophe and trauma—including Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Derek Walcott, as well as key figures in Holocaust studies—Glissant and the Middle Passage hones a sharp sense of the specifically Caribbean varieties of loss, developing them into a transformative philosophical idea. Using the Plantation as a critical concept, John E. Drabinski creolizes notions of rhizome and nomad, examining what kinds of aesthetics grow from these roots and offering reconsiderations of what constitutes intellectual work and cultural production. Glissant and the Middle Passage establishes Glissant’s proper place as a key theorist of ruin, catastrophe, abyss, and memory. Identifying his insistence on memories and histories tied to place as the crucial geography at the heart of his work, this book imparts an innovative new response to the specific historical experiences of the Middle Passage.
Édouard Glissant
Title | Édouard Glissant PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Coombes |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 217 |
Release | 2018-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350036854 |
Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation. Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant's thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant's vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today.
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity
Title | Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Glissant Translation Proje |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 178962097X |
This book consists of four lectures and six interviews; it covers a wide range of topics central to Glissant's thought - such as creolization, langage, culture and identity, 'atavistic' versus 'composite cultures' - presented in a particularly accessible form because here Glissant interacts with the views of other people.