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Poetics of relation / Édouard Glissant ; translated by Betsy Wing.
Van Pelt Library F2081.8 .G5513 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011.
- Standardized Title:
- Poétique de la relation. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Creole dialects, French.
- French language.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Language and culture.
- Civilization.
- Martinique--Civilization--20th century.
- Martinique.
- Language and culture--Martinique.
- Nationalism and literature--Martinique.
- French language--Martinique.
- Creole dialects, French--Martinique.
- Martinique--Dependency on France.
- West Indies, French--Relations--France.
- West Indies, French.
- France--Relations--West Indies, French.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 226 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- In Poetics of Relation, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Edouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring an "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Arguing that the writer alone can tap the unconscious of a people and apprehend its multiform culture in order to provide forms of memory and intent capable of transcending "nonhistory", Glissant therefore defines his "poetics of relation" - both aesthetic and political - as a transformative mode of history, capable of enunciating and making concrete a French-Caribbean reality with a self-defined past and future. In Poetics of Relation, we come to see that relation in all its senses - telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings - is the key to transforming mentalities and reshaping societies. The issues raised about identity as built in relation and not in isolation are central to current discussions not only of Caribbean creolization but of U.S. multiculturalism as well.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226).
- ISBN:
- 047209629X
- 0472066293
- OCLC:
- 36417844
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