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Sun of consciousness / Édouard Glissant ; translated by Nathanaël.
Van Pelt Library PQ3949.2.G53 S6513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Soleil de la conscience: poetique 1. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Nationalism and literature.
- History.
- Civilization.
- Martinique--Civilization.
- Martinique.
- Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (French).
- Nationalism and literature--West Indies, French--History--20th century.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- West Indies, French--Relations--France.
- West Indies, French.
- France--Relations--West Indies, French.
- France.
- International relations.
- Lesser Antilles--West Indies, French.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 89 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Poétique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissant's concerns with créolisation (creolization), mondialité (worldliness, as against globalization), or opacité (opacity) and inscribes in this work a refusal of colonialism and of inverted exoticism. The sense of estrangement experienced by the author who arrives as a 'foreigner' in a country to which he is bound by 'the first page of his passport' is the author's principal preoccupation. By positioning himself as both different and same, Glissant opens a space for the writing of a(nother) history: that of the Caribbean."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- From the gaze to language
- The course of the poem
- The two pages of the voyage
- The experience revealed
- Sun of consciousness
- Cities, poems
- At last the muds have knotted the soul
- A note on the translation.
- Notes:
- "Published originally as: Soleil de la conscience: Poetique I."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781937658953
- 1937658953
- OCLC:
- 1111258122
- Publisher Number:
- 99984225924
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