Forces of Creolization Glissant and a decolonial feminist aperture Ruthanne Soohee Kim

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Ruthanne Soohee, author.

Series:

New World studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Glissant, Édouard.

Martinican literature (French Creole)--History and criticism.

Martinican literature (French Creole).

Intercultural communication in literature.

Feminist theory.

Decolonization in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Glissant and a decolonial feminist aperture

Place of Publication:

University of Virginia Press, 2026.

Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2026

Summary:

"A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Édouard Glissant. Forces of Creolization reads Édouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and Global South epistemologies, Ruthanne Soohee Kim unveils a method of reading Glissant that centers diffraction, opacity, and errantry-not merely as metaphors but as political and poetic strategies. Reading Glissant alongside Luce Irigaray, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, and Kamau Brathwaite, Kim shows how creolization resists colonial genealogies, racial essentialism, and patriarchal closure. With her close readings of Glissant's novels, essays, and theoretical writings, Kim theorizes the abyss, the open boat, and the Medusing shoreline as sites where historical trauma becomes creative insurgency. Here, chaos, revolt, and carnival emerge as generative forces of world-making. Forces of Creolization offers an interdisciplinary framework for rethinking kinship, identity, and futurity, and contributes a necessary feminist aperture to Caribbean thought"-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2026)

ISBN:

9780813955667

0813955661

OCLC:

1613518216

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