Édouard Glissant : a poetics of resistance / Sam Coombes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coombes, Sam, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Criticism and interpretation.

Glissant, Édouard.

Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Philosophy.

Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Political and social views.

Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011.

Postcolonialism.

Globalization.

Political and social views.

Philosophy.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 199 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Later Glissantian thought as alternative perspective on globalization

1. Poetics of Relation (1990): a manifesto for the twenty-first century?

2. From Relation to the `common-place': the later Glissantian conceptual schema

pt. TWO Creolization, anti-universalism and twenty-first-century radical thought

3. Creolization and creoleness: proximity and divergence

4. The paradoxes of universalism and the ambivalence of the postcolonial condition

5. Glissant: postmodernist apologist for neoliberal-led globalization?

6. Glissant's latter-day political commitments

pt. THREE Envisioning the twenty-first century otherwise: utopianism, anarchism and the critique of neoliberalism

7. Globalization and its critics: neoliberalism, alter-globalization and contemporary anarchism

8. A poetics of resistance and change: Glissant, a maitre a penser for twenty-first-century dissident thought?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index.

ISBN:

9781350036833

1350036838

9781350036840

1350036846

OCLC:

993420828