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Book Poetics of Relation

Download or read book Poetics of Relation written by Édouard Glissant and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

Book Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory

Download or read book Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory written by Celia Britton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Caribbean Discourse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Édouard Glissant
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780813913735
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Caribbean Discourse written by Édouard Glissant and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Sun of Consciousness

    Book Details:
  • Author : EDOUARD. GLISSANT
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781937658953
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Sun of Consciousness written by EDOUARD. GLISSANT and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book   douard Glissant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Coombes
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-07-26
  • ISBN : 1350036854
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book douard Glissant written by Sam Coombes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Think Like an Archipelago

Download or read book Think Like an Archipelago written by Michael Wiedorn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project. With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant’s work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant’s philosophy. The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a “new category of literature,” and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself. “The book’s use of the central concept of paradox is both original and convincing, and allows Wiedorn to reframe many of the issues surrounding Glissant’s thought in a new and illuminating way.” — Celia Britton, author of Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance

Book Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity

Download or read book Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity written by and published by Glissant Translation Proje. This book was released on 2020 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Poetic Intention

    Book Details:
  • Author : Édouard Glissant
  • Publisher : NIGHTBOAT BOOKS
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780982264539
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Poetic Intention written by Édouard Glissant and published by NIGHTBOAT BOOKS. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant’s classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Saint-John Perse, and visual artists, such as the Surrealist painters Matta and Wilfredo Lam, arguing for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the “way of the world.” Capacious, inventive, and unique, Glissant’s Poetic Intention creates a new landscape for understanding the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Book Manifestos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edouard Glissant
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 191338053X
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Manifestos written by Edouard Glissant and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected manifestos of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau: for a postcolonial response to planetary crisis. Manifestos brings together for the first time in English the manifestos written by Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau between 2000 and 2009. Composed in part in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, the texts resonate with the current context of divided identities and criticisms of multiculturalism. The individual texts grapple with concrete historical and political moments in France, the Caribbean, and North America. Across the manifestos, as well as two collectively signed op-eds, the authors engage with socio-political aspects of climate catastrophe, resource extraction, toxicity, and neocolonialism. Throughout the collection, Glissant and Chamoiseau engage with key themes articulated through their poetic vocabulary, including Relation, globalization, globality (mondialité), anti-universalism, métissage, the tout-monde (“whole-world”) and the tout-vivant (“all-living,” including the relationship of humans to each other and “nature”), créolité and the creolization of the world, and the liberation from community assignations in response to individualism and neoliberal societies. Translated as the first volume in the Planetarities series with Goldsmiths Press, the themes of Manifestos resonate with the planetary as they work in response to contemporary forms of (economic) globalization, western capitalism, identity politics, and urban, digital and cosmic ecosystems, as well as the role of the poet-writer. A distinguishing feature of this publication is its interventional aspect, which prioritizes engaged scholarship and practice while demonstrating the relevance of the poetic in response to the urgencies of planetary crisis.

Book Treatise on the Whole World

Download or read book Treatise on the Whole World written by Celia Britton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and ‘Relation’. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of different communities interacting and evolving together, and argues passionately against all political and philosophical attempts to impose uniformity, universal or absolute values. This is the ‘Whole-World’, which includes not only these objective phenomena but also our consciousness of them. Our personal identities are not fixed and self-sufficient but formed in ‘Relation’ through our contacts with others. Glissant constantly stresses the unpredictable, ‘chaotic’ nature of the world, which, he claims, we must adapt to and not attempt to limit or control. ‘Creolization’ is not restricted to the Creole societies of the Caribbean but describes all societies in which different cultures with equal status interact to produce new configurations. This perspective produces brilliant new insights into the politicization of culture, but also language, poetry, our relationship to place and to landscapes, globalization, history, and other topics. The book is not written in the style conventionally associated with essays, but is a mixture of argument, proclamation, and poetic evocations of landscapes, lifestyles and people.

Book Glissant and the Middle Passage

Download or read book Glissant and the Middle Passage written by John E. Drabinski and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Edouard Glissant

Download or read book Edouard Glissant written by J. Michael Dash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of influential novelist, poet and theorist of Caribbean and post-colonial literature.

Book Mahagony

    Book Details:
  • Author : Édouard Glissant
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 1496201787
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Mahagony written by Édouard Glissant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel in three parts, Mahagony's multiple narrators grapple with the history of slavery on Martinique and their place in the wider world"--

Book The Overseer s Cabin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Édouard Glissant
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2011-05-01
  • ISBN : 0803234791
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Overseer s Cabin written by Édouard Glissant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one Martinican family whose legacy has all but been erased.

Book   douard Glissant  Philosopher  Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole World

Download or read book douard Glissant Philosopher Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole World written by Alexandre Leupin and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Alexandre Leupin's award-winning study of Édouard Glissant's entire work in relation to philosophy.

Book Faulkner  Mississippi

Download or read book Faulkner Mississippi written by Édouard Glissant and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1999 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean writer examines the racial complexities of Faulkner's works set in the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County

Book Monsieur Toussaint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edouard Glissant
  • Publisher : Three Continents Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780894108709
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book Monsieur Toussaint written by Edouard Glissant and published by Three Continents Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint tells the tragic story of Toussaint Louverture, the charismatic leader of the revolution - the only successful slave revolt in history - that led to Haiti's independence two-hundred years ago. Translated by the author himself in collaboration with J. Michael Dash, this new edition captures the striking essence of the original French play (first published in 1961).