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Edouard Glissant
In 1989, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one…
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J. Michael Dash (University of the West Indies)
The novelist and poet Edouard Glissant has recently also emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature. In this first full-length study of his work J. Michael…
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These 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…
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Sam Coombes (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Edouard 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…
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This volume collects and translates–most for the first time–the nine volumes of poetry published by Edouard Glissant, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The poems bring to…
Celia Britton
This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction a une poetique du divers (1996);
This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subjects, linked together through the key ideas of diversity and “Relation’. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and colonialism…
Elizabeth Bowles Duchanaud
Positioning the French Caribbean and its literature within a postcolonial context is not only tricky, but erroneous. A new area of study, the francophone postcolonial, allows for an alternative voice…
The first English-language translation of a leading Caribbean writer’s debut volume.
Celia Britton (Carnegie Professor of French, Aberdeen University)
A Presentation of Glissant’s theoretical writings on the colonial experience in the Caribbean, and an analysis of his powerful yet subtle novels in the context of postcolonial studies. This juxtaposition…
Alexandre Leupin
Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Edouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.
Michael Wiedorn
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.
Kate M Cooper
This collection of interviews is remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant’s thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in…
'This language that is every stone' accompanies the fourth iteration of a series of exhibitions, relating to the work and thought of Martiniquan writer Edouard Glissant.Glissant's images and ideas--developed in…
Tells of the quest by young Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique.
Edouard Glissant,Patrick Chamoiseau
The collected manifestos of douard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau- for a postcolonial response to planetary crisis.
Manifestos brings together for the first time in English the manifestos written by douard…
A translation of Poetic Intention , Glissant’s classic meditation on poetry and art. It discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual artists, such as the Surrealist painters…
One Martinican woman’s resistance of French culture and her search for identity in her country’s colonized past.
In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. This translation of Glissant’s work preserves the resonating…
The multiple narrators in this novel grapple with their unrecorded history on Martinique, first as slaves and then in relation to the wider world.
Patrick Chamoiseau
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, king of the wheelbarrow at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical…
Edouard Glissant,Sylvie Sema-Glissant
Sylvie and Edouard Glissant’s intention was not to add hypotheses to those many that have attempted to pierce the mystery of Easter island. They wanted to touch imaginatively the stirring…
Micha Luther
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aime Cesaire, geboren im Jahr 1913 in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, war in…
Martin Munro
We are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had…
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Luciano C. Picanco
L'objectif de Vers un concept de Litterature Nationale Martiniquaise est de demontrer qu'il existe en Martinique une litterature dont la dynamique laisse entrevoir les caracteristiques d'une litterature nationale. Pour ce…
Reflections on the art and process of translation
An investigation into the compelling phenomenon of translation, understood here as a creative process through which something new is always created. Including…
This volume explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, post-colonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era.
Benjamin P. Davis
Poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant called his readers to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. This book offers an…
One of the first readings, in English or French, of Edouard Glissant as an ethical theorist
