Poetics of Relation
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1997
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Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique, his writing focuses on the idea of a "relational poetics, " which laid the groundwork for the "crolit" movement. That movement understands Caribbean culture and identity as the positive products ora complex and multiple set of local historical circumstances.
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In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the Antilles as enduring suffering imposed by history, yet as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Glissant 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.
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