Neil Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226127460
- eISBN:
- 9780226201184
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226201184.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter examines Édouard Glissant’s thought within the wider discourses on creolization and creolizing political theory. It also marks a shift in the book to describing marronage’s relevance for ...
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This chapter examines Édouard Glissant’s thought within the wider discourses on creolization and creolizing political theory. It also marks a shift in the book to describing marronage’s relevance for late modernity. The chapter provides a philosophical reading of two Glissant texts (one novel, one essay collection) from his early and middle period that engage historical and imaginative forms of marronage. By exploring types of marronage in these works Glissant develops original concepts framing what the chapter contends is Glissant’s four-stage blueprint for sociogenic marronage: 1) rearticulating a philosophy of history, 2) retour (reversion/return) and détour (diversion/detour), 3) resistance, and 4) Antillanité (Caribbeanness). The chapter subsequently explores Glissant’s use of the rhizome idea and how lines of flight explain modes of marronage as an economy of survival, state of being, and condition of becoming, whether through fleeting fugitive acts, attempts at liberation, or the constitution of freedom. The implications of Glissant’s conception of marronage for contemporary debates over France’s commemoration of abolition, the Arab Spring, and relation between mainland France and French overseas départements including Martinique are addressed. The ending briefly discusses immigration politics and the figure of the refugee-immigrant as a late modern maroon.Less
This chapter examines Édouard Glissant’s thought within the wider discourses on creolization and creolizing political theory. It also marks a shift in the book to describing marronage’s relevance for late modernity. The chapter provides a philosophical reading of two Glissant texts (one novel, one essay collection) from his early and middle period that engage historical and imaginative forms of marronage. By exploring types of marronage in these works Glissant develops original concepts framing what the chapter contends is Glissant’s four-stage blueprint for sociogenic marronage: 1) rearticulating a philosophy of history, 2) retour (reversion/return) and détour (diversion/detour), 3) resistance, and 4) Antillanité (Caribbeanness). The chapter subsequently explores Glissant’s use of the rhizome idea and how lines of flight explain modes of marronage as an economy of survival, state of being, and condition of becoming, whether through fleeting fugitive acts, attempts at liberation, or the constitution of freedom. The implications of Glissant’s conception of marronage for contemporary debates over France’s commemoration of abolition, the Arab Spring, and relation between mainland France and French overseas départements including Martinique are addressed. The ending briefly discusses immigration politics and the figure of the refugee-immigrant as a late modern maroon.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311437
- eISBN:
- 9781846315299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311437.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant. It begins a descriptive overview of Glissant's insistently creolizing vision, based on his 2005 collection of essays, La cohée du Lamentin. It then ...
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This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant. It begins a descriptive overview of Glissant's insistently creolizing vision, based on his 2005 collection of essays, La cohée du Lamentin. It then considers the diachronic approach to his career trajectory that was taken in Islands and Exiles, arguing that notwithstanding the remarkable consistency of Glissant's vision over the past five decades when it comes to championing a cross-cultural poetics of Relation, his most recent work is characterized by the concerted attempt to ‘desuture’ that poetics from any and all oppositional politics of the sort with which he himself had once associated it. After examining this post-political turn in relation to an important watershed in the marketing of his oeuvre, the chapter goes one to examine what, if anything, remains of the logic of the political in late Glissant's work. It suggests that this logic does, inevitably, continue to inform aspects of his archly poeticizing vision, but not necessarily in a way that we might expect.Less
This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant. It begins a descriptive overview of Glissant's insistently creolizing vision, based on his 2005 collection of essays, La cohée du Lamentin. It then considers the diachronic approach to his career trajectory that was taken in Islands and Exiles, arguing that notwithstanding the remarkable consistency of Glissant's vision over the past five decades when it comes to championing a cross-cultural poetics of Relation, his most recent work is characterized by the concerted attempt to ‘desuture’ that poetics from any and all oppositional politics of the sort with which he himself had once associated it. After examining this post-political turn in relation to an important watershed in the marketing of his oeuvre, the chapter goes one to examine what, if anything, remains of the logic of the political in late Glissant's work. It suggests that this logic does, inevitably, continue to inform aspects of his archly poeticizing vision, but not necessarily in a way that we might expect.
Michael Wiedorn
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317538
- eISBN:
- 9781846317200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317200.011
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
William Faulkner has been castigated for his loyalty to the reactionary attitudes of the traditional white South and his tolerance of its racism. This chapter demonstrates Édouard Glissant's ...
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William Faulkner has been castigated for his loyalty to the reactionary attitudes of the traditional white South and his tolerance of its racism. This chapter demonstrates Édouard Glissant's rehabilitation of Faulkner as an anti-racist, white Southern novelist. Glissant's admiration for Faulkner is evident throughout his career, culminating in the book Faulkner, Mississippi, which proclaims Faulkner's affiliation with the South. Glissant reclaims Faulkner as a ‘Creole’ writer and argues that his novels are politically progressive in their intuition of the possible future creolization of American society.Less
William Faulkner has been castigated for his loyalty to the reactionary attitudes of the traditional white South and his tolerance of its racism. This chapter demonstrates Édouard Glissant's rehabilitation of Faulkner as an anti-racist, white Southern novelist. Glissant's admiration for Faulkner is evident throughout his career, culminating in the book Faulkner, Mississippi, which proclaims Faulkner's affiliation with the South. Glissant reclaims Faulkner as a ‘Creole’ writer and argues that his novels are politically progressive in their intuition of the possible future creolization of American society.
Jean-Luc Tamby
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317538
- eISBN:
- 9781846317200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317200.009
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines and compares Édouard Glissant's writings and Miles Davis's music. This comparative approach leads to reflections on the connection of their strategies of resistance and their ...
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This chapter examines and compares Édouard Glissant's writings and Miles Davis's music. This comparative approach leads to reflections on the connection of their strategies of resistance and their individual formal concerns. Based on Glissant's remark that his writing style and Davis's jazz style are identical, the chapter suggests that the literature of the Caribbean and jazz music in the United States belong to areas of cultural activity which have comparable histories despite their dissimilarities.Less
This chapter examines and compares Édouard Glissant's writings and Miles Davis's music. This comparative approach leads to reflections on the connection of their strategies of resistance and their individual formal concerns. Based on Glissant's remark that his writing style and Davis's jazz style are identical, the chapter suggests that the literature of the Caribbean and jazz music in the United States belong to areas of cultural activity which have comparable histories despite their dissimilarities.
Claire Bisdorff
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318672
- eISBN:
- 9781846317996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318672.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Édouard Glissant's innovative approach to language, be it in his poetry, fiction or prose d'idées, is now well documented. Glissant's work certainly fascinates Anglo-American academics and critics, ...
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Édouard Glissant's innovative approach to language, be it in his poetry, fiction or prose d'idées, is now well documented. Glissant's work certainly fascinates Anglo-American academics and critics, as the recent proliferation of work on his oeuvre clearly shows. Celia Britton's book Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (1999) stands as evidence of the importance of Glissant (and the wider French Caribbean) for contemporary postcolonial theory - and translations have a clear role to play in the dissemination of prose d’idées from the French Caribbean to an English-speaking audience. Through the lens of linguistic transfer, this article uses translation as a privileged tool to analyse Glissant's poetics and to show how the very idea of translation is embedded in Glissant's fiction and poetry.Less
Édouard Glissant's innovative approach to language, be it in his poetry, fiction or prose d'idées, is now well documented. Glissant's work certainly fascinates Anglo-American academics and critics, as the recent proliferation of work on his oeuvre clearly shows. Celia Britton's book Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (1999) stands as evidence of the importance of Glissant (and the wider French Caribbean) for contemporary postcolonial theory - and translations have a clear role to play in the dissemination of prose d’idées from the French Caribbean to an English-speaking audience. Through the lens of linguistic transfer, this article uses translation as a privileged tool to analyse Glissant's poetics and to show how the very idea of translation is embedded in Glissant's fiction and poetry.
Tim Watson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190852672
- eISBN:
- 9780190852702
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190852672.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter analyzes the early novels of Édouard Glissant set in Martinique, which are more anthropological than critics have realized up to now, as well as his early essays. Glissant studied ...
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This chapter analyzes the early novels of Édouard Glissant set in Martinique, which are more anthropological than critics have realized up to now, as well as his early essays. Glissant studied anthropology in Paris (where Michel Leiris was his adviser), and even though he was an anticolonial writer and activist, he turned in his literary work toward the human science that was most marked by its birth under colonialism, anthropology. The chapter ends by arguing that Glissant’s literary meditation, Soleil de la conscience, can be read as a kind of ethnographic chronicle of Paris in the 1950s, a Caribbean anthropology of the French Métropole.Less
This chapter analyzes the early novels of Édouard Glissant set in Martinique, which are more anthropological than critics have realized up to now, as well as his early essays. Glissant studied anthropology in Paris (where Michel Leiris was his adviser), and even though he was an anticolonial writer and activist, he turned in his literary work toward the human science that was most marked by its birth under colonialism, anthropology. The chapter ends by arguing that Glissant’s literary meditation, Soleil de la conscience, can be read as a kind of ethnographic chronicle of Paris in the 1950s, a Caribbean anthropology of the French Métropole.
Jason Herbeck
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940391
- eISBN:
- 9781786944948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940391.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Set in Martinique, Glissant’s La Lézarde (1958) focuses on the years leading up to the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in 1946. In exploring the “spatial logic” (Hitchcock) of ...
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Set in Martinique, Glissant’s La Lézarde (1958) focuses on the years leading up to the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in 1946. In exploring the “spatial logic” (Hitchcock) of Martinican space found in the novel, and the links that characters have with specific parts of this signifying landscape, initial textual analyses demonstrate how these individualized relationships inform each person’s views and actions, and, together, are representative of the competing interests and perspectives involved when attempting to negotiate expressions of French-Caribbean identity. In the context of these conflicting positions articulated by different members of the novel’s young revolutionary group with respect to determining Martinique’s future and chronicling the country’s elusive past, both the conspicuous placement and (in)occupancy of the novel’s principle architectural structure—the Maison de la Source—and LaLézarde’s own (meta)construction serve to illustrate how identity-building in the French Caribbean is fraught with conflict and uncertainty.Less
Set in Martinique, Glissant’s La Lézarde (1958) focuses on the years leading up to the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in 1946. In exploring the “spatial logic” (Hitchcock) of Martinican space found in the novel, and the links that characters have with specific parts of this signifying landscape, initial textual analyses demonstrate how these individualized relationships inform each person’s views and actions, and, together, are representative of the competing interests and perspectives involved when attempting to negotiate expressions of French-Caribbean identity. In the context of these conflicting positions articulated by different members of the novel’s young revolutionary group with respect to determining Martinique’s future and chronicling the country’s elusive past, both the conspicuous placement and (in)occupancy of the novel’s principle architectural structure—the Maison de la Source—and LaLézarde’s own (meta)construction serve to illustrate how identity-building in the French Caribbean is fraught with conflict and uncertainty.
Charles Forsdick
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381519
- eISBN:
- 9781781384923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381519.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the influence of literary form on thinking about globalization in the Caribbean by focusing on the re-emergence of the manifesto in late twentieth- and early ...
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This chapter examines the influence of literary form on thinking about globalization in the Caribbean by focusing on the re-emergence of the manifesto in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century debates around globalization in the francophone Caribbean as a tool of political provocation and collective intervention. In particular, it considers a series of statements and documents with which Édouard Glissant was associated as signatory in the final decade of his life. The chapter first analyses the cultural activism of the littérature-monde manifesto, with which Glissant’s involvement is ultimately ambivalent. It then looks at the limitations of a notion of world literature in which poetics eclipses discussion of the politics of literary production. It also uses the littérature-monde manifesto and related forms to address the relationship between local, national, and transnational frames. Finally, it suggests alternative configurations of space, culture, and politics in relation to globalization.Less
This chapter examines the influence of literary form on thinking about globalization in the Caribbean by focusing on the re-emergence of the manifesto in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century debates around globalization in the francophone Caribbean as a tool of political provocation and collective intervention. In particular, it considers a series of statements and documents with which Édouard Glissant was associated as signatory in the final decade of his life. The chapter first analyses the cultural activism of the littérature-monde manifesto, with which Glissant’s involvement is ultimately ambivalent. It then looks at the limitations of a notion of world literature in which poetics eclipses discussion of the politics of literary production. It also uses the littérature-monde manifesto and related forms to address the relationship between local, national, and transnational frames. Finally, it suggests alternative configurations of space, culture, and politics in relation to globalization.
Chris Bongie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310546
- eISBN:
- 9781846319808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846319808.007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Édouard Glissant, a novelist, poet, and theorist from Martinique, has carved a niche in the French literary scene. In Paris, he published his first volumes of poetry in the early 1950s and his first ...
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Édouard Glissant, a novelist, poet, and theorist from Martinique, has carved a niche in the French literary scene. In Paris, he published his first volumes of poetry in the early 1950s and his first novel, La Lézarde, in 1958. Glissant was also known as a staunch advocate of ‘creolity’ and has had a major impact on postcolonial theory in the Anglo-American academy. This chapter examines his vision of creolity by focusing on his collection of essays, La Cohée du Lamentin (2005). It argues that Glissant's later work reflects a turn away from the political and its necessarily partisan commitments, a shift which necessitates a certain reconsideration of his work as a whole and its implications for postcolonial thought. The chapter also looks at Glissant's translations of globalisation into globality as well as his poetics of relation.Less
Édouard Glissant, a novelist, poet, and theorist from Martinique, has carved a niche in the French literary scene. In Paris, he published his first volumes of poetry in the early 1950s and his first novel, La Lézarde, in 1958. Glissant was also known as a staunch advocate of ‘creolity’ and has had a major impact on postcolonial theory in the Anglo-American academy. This chapter examines his vision of creolity by focusing on his collection of essays, La Cohée du Lamentin (2005). It argues that Glissant's later work reflects a turn away from the political and its necessarily partisan commitments, a shift which necessitates a certain reconsideration of his work as a whole and its implications for postcolonial thought. The chapter also looks at Glissant's translations of globalisation into globality as well as his poetics of relation.
Richard Scholar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381519
- eISBN:
- 9781781384923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381519.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the connection between Caribbean globalizations past and present. More specifically, it considers contemporary francophone Caribbean theorizations of global interconnectedness ...
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This chapter examines the connection between Caribbean globalizations past and present. More specifically, it considers contemporary francophone Caribbean theorizations of global interconnectedness in relation to early modern European cartographic literature. It compares and contrasts the role played by the figure of the archipelago in the late nonfiction of Édouard Glissant and the sixteenth-century printed isolario (‘book of islands’). It discusses Glissant’s characterization of globality as a Caribbean alternative to Western political and economic globalization and suggests that the isolario offers an opportunity for early modern writing to ‘talk back’ to contemporary Caribbean thought by contesting the dominant discourse of globalization.Less
This chapter examines the connection between Caribbean globalizations past and present. More specifically, it considers contemporary francophone Caribbean theorizations of global interconnectedness in relation to early modern European cartographic literature. It compares and contrasts the role played by the figure of the archipelago in the late nonfiction of Édouard Glissant and the sixteenth-century printed isolario (‘book of islands’). It discusses Glissant’s characterization of globality as a Caribbean alternative to Western political and economic globalization and suggests that the isolario offers an opportunity for early modern writing to ‘talk back’ to contemporary Caribbean thought by contesting the dominant discourse of globalization.
John E. Drabinski
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641031
- eISBN:
- 9780748652617
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, this book undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and ...
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What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, this book undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics. Through these philosophical readings, the author gives a new perspective on the work of these important postcolonial theorists, and helps make Levinas relevant to other disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.Less
What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, this book undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics. Through these philosophical readings, the author gives a new perspective on the work of these important postcolonial theorists, and helps make Levinas relevant to other disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.
Celia Britton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317538
- eISBN:
- 9781846317200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317200.013
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines William Faulkner's theme of ancestral crime and his influence on two Caribbean novels: Édouard Glissant's Le Quatrième Siécle (1964) and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove ...
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This chapter examines William Faulkner's theme of ancestral crime and his influence on two Caribbean novels: Édouard Glissant's Le Quatrième Siécle (1964) and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove (1989). Glissant sees Faulkner's novels as showing the impossibility of founding a pure lineage. In Le Quatrième Siécle, Glissant reworks Faulkner's interest with ancestral crime or the ‘original sin’ that has to do with the foundation of a lineage. Condé's allusions to Faulknerian themes differ from Glissant's in the sense that she is not at all interested in the idea of founding a lineage: the hidden crimes in her case are not original but are ancestral.Less
This chapter examines William Faulkner's theme of ancestral crime and his influence on two Caribbean novels: Édouard Glissant's Le Quatrième Siécle (1964) and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove (1989). Glissant sees Faulkner's novels as showing the impossibility of founding a pure lineage. In Le Quatrième Siécle, Glissant reworks Faulkner's interest with ancestral crime or the ‘original sin’ that has to do with the foundation of a lineage. Condé's allusions to Faulknerian themes differ from Glissant's in the sense that she is not at all interested in the idea of founding a lineage: the hidden crimes in her case are not original but are ancestral.
Jerome Carnal
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317538
- eISBN:
- 9781846317200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317200.010
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter reflects on the debates concerned with the usefulness of the concept of creolization in globalization studies in order to emphasize the fluid and unstable nature of culture. It tests the ...
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This chapter reflects on the debates concerned with the usefulness of the concept of creolization in globalization studies in order to emphasize the fluid and unstable nature of culture. It tests the usefulness of creolization through a study of US saxophonist David Murray's collaboration with Guadeloupean musicians. It also compares understandings of Édouard Glissant's créolisation with the meaning of creolization for the musicians involved in the Creole Project in Guadeloupe. The chapter shows that ‘creolization’ and its related terms ‘Creole’ and ‘créolité’ continue to hold specific and disputed meanings in Guadeloupean society.Less
This chapter reflects on the debates concerned with the usefulness of the concept of creolization in globalization studies in order to emphasize the fluid and unstable nature of culture. It tests the usefulness of creolization through a study of US saxophonist David Murray's collaboration with Guadeloupean musicians. It also compares understandings of Édouard Glissant's créolisation with the meaning of creolization for the musicians involved in the Creole Project in Guadeloupe. The chapter shows that ‘creolization’ and its related terms ‘Creole’ and ‘créolité’ continue to hold specific and disputed meanings in Guadeloupean society.
Elías Ortega-Aponte
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823276219
- eISBN:
- 9780823277049
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823276219.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter traces how ancestral fragments evidenced in the embodied epistemology of afro-Caribbean “bomba” dancing and drumming haunt social and material reality as well as their theorization. ...
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This chapter traces how ancestral fragments evidenced in the embodied epistemology of afro-Caribbean “bomba” dancing and drumming haunt social and material reality as well as their theorization. Opening a space in affect studies for conversation between complexity theory, Dionne Brand, and Édouard Glissant, the chapter argues that the ghosts created by trauma, and the knowledge-fragments they keep, not only inform justice claims fragments, but may shape the fabric of reality.Less
This chapter traces how ancestral fragments evidenced in the embodied epistemology of afro-Caribbean “bomba” dancing and drumming haunt social and material reality as well as their theorization. Opening a space in affect studies for conversation between complexity theory, Dionne Brand, and Édouard Glissant, the chapter argues that the ghosts created by trauma, and the knowledge-fragments they keep, not only inform justice claims fragments, but may shape the fabric of reality.
Martin Munro
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381519
- eISBN:
- 9781781384923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381519.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the relationship between the theory and experience of the apocalypse in the complex, globalized, present, and in Caribbean history. It first considers images of the apocalypse ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between the theory and experience of the apocalypse in the complex, globalized, present, and in Caribbean history. It first considers images of the apocalypse and strands of millenarian thought in Caribbean literature argues that the apocalyptic reality of the present, globalized world is a reflection of processes and discourses that have long informed Caribbean thought and lived experience. In contrast to Édouard Glissant’s assertion that the world is creolizing, this chapter suggests that the world is apocalypsizing and that the world is catching up with a reality that has long informed Caribbean experience. Finally, it shows how the processes of modernization and globalization lead societies ever closer to an apocalyptic abyss.Less
This chapter examines the relationship between the theory and experience of the apocalypse in the complex, globalized, present, and in Caribbean history. It first considers images of the apocalypse and strands of millenarian thought in Caribbean literature argues that the apocalyptic reality of the present, globalized world is a reflection of processes and discourses that have long informed Caribbean thought and lived experience. In contrast to Édouard Glissant’s assertion that the world is creolizing, this chapter suggests that the world is apocalypsizing and that the world is catching up with a reality that has long informed Caribbean experience. Finally, it shows how the processes of modernization and globalization lead societies ever closer to an apocalyptic abyss.
Charles Forsdick and David Murphy (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310546
- eISBN:
- 9781846319808
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846319808
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In the late 1990s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologisation and an overemphasis on English-language literature led to sustained critiques ...
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In the late 1990s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologisation and an overemphasis on English-language literature led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalised and transnational formations of the postcolonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, it began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Édouard Glissant and Abdelkébir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, it gives students and scholars outside French departments a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates, and, at the same time, supplies scholars in French with an overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.Less
In the late 1990s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologisation and an overemphasis on English-language literature led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalised and transnational formations of the postcolonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, it began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Édouard Glissant and Abdelkébir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, it gives students and scholars outside French departments a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates, and, at the same time, supplies scholars in French with an overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.
Jonathan Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199554591
- eISBN:
- 9780191808258
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199554591.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant’s work and how it moved through and beyond the legacies of the colonial past that remained frozen within the Cold War frame, and towards the ...
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This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant’s work and how it moved through and beyond the legacies of the colonial past that remained frozen within the Cold War frame, and towards the thinking-imagining of a liberated ‘new world’ on the other side of the Cold War’s binary structures and hegemonic powers. Valuing poetry’s importance as, a ‘language of inquiry’, Glissant encourages a thinking-imagining that moves beyond oppositional aethetics and politics to an emphasis on multiplicities, and alternatives to dualistic thinking in all its destructive manifestations.Less
This chapter examines the work of Édouard Glissant’s work and how it moved through and beyond the legacies of the colonial past that remained frozen within the Cold War frame, and towards the thinking-imagining of a liberated ‘new world’ on the other side of the Cold War’s binary structures and hegemonic powers. Valuing poetry’s importance as, a ‘language of inquiry’, Glissant encourages a thinking-imagining that moves beyond oppositional aethetics and politics to an emphasis on multiplicities, and alternatives to dualistic thinking in all its destructive manifestations.
Chris Bongie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314834
- eISBN:
- 9781846316265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316265.008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
The littérature-monde Manifesto, published in March 2007 by Michel Le Bris, Jean Rouaud, and other writers, deconstructs the French/Francophone binary and calls for ‘world literature in French’. The ...
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The littérature-monde Manifesto, published in March 2007 by Michel Le Bris, Jean Rouaud, and other writers, deconstructs the French/Francophone binary and calls for ‘world literature in French’. The manifesto, along with the follow up chapters written by Le Bris and Rouaud for their edited collection, is haunted by the potential dissolution of literature in general and French literature in particular. This chapter focuses on the contributions of Édouard Glissant and the Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot, two of those who signed the original Manifesto, and its ‘post-politics’. It examines the Manifesto's fetishistic representation of ‘literature’ under threat and Glissant's contribution to the collection: an interview entitled ‘Solitaire et solidaire’.Less
The littérature-monde Manifesto, published in March 2007 by Michel Le Bris, Jean Rouaud, and other writers, deconstructs the French/Francophone binary and calls for ‘world literature in French’. The manifesto, along with the follow up chapters written by Le Bris and Rouaud for their edited collection, is haunted by the potential dissolution of literature in general and French literature in particular. This chapter focuses on the contributions of Édouard Glissant and the Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot, two of those who signed the original Manifesto, and its ‘post-politics’. It examines the Manifesto's fetishistic representation of ‘literature’ under threat and Glissant's contribution to the collection: an interview entitled ‘Solitaire et solidaire’.
Lucy Evans
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781381182
- eISBN:
- 9781781384855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381182.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
The Conclusion brings together the eight texts analysed in the book, comparing and contrasting the kinds of community depicted in each and the ways each writer utilises the form of the short story ...
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The Conclusion brings together the eight texts analysed in the book, comparing and contrasting the kinds of community depicted in each and the ways each writer utilises the form of the short story collection or cycle as a means of articulating these. It then returns to Édouard Glissant’s, Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s and Wilson Harris’s differing models of association discussed in the Introduction, considering the extent to which the literary portrayals of community examined in the book resonate with these theoretical models. The Conclusion argues that the book’s textual readings demonstrate the flexibility and dynamism of the short story collection and cycle, since in each case the text’s narrative structure emerges out of the writer’s unique engagement with community. Finally, the Conclusion comments on how the book’s textual readings have illuminated connections and tensions between literary and anthropological representations of Caribbean communities, and reflects on the benefits of interdisciplinarity in Caribbean studies.Less
The Conclusion brings together the eight texts analysed in the book, comparing and contrasting the kinds of community depicted in each and the ways each writer utilises the form of the short story collection or cycle as a means of articulating these. It then returns to Édouard Glissant’s, Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s and Wilson Harris’s differing models of association discussed in the Introduction, considering the extent to which the literary portrayals of community examined in the book resonate with these theoretical models. The Conclusion argues that the book’s textual readings demonstrate the flexibility and dynamism of the short story collection and cycle, since in each case the text’s narrative structure emerges out of the writer’s unique engagement with community. Finally, the Conclusion comments on how the book’s textual readings have illuminated connections and tensions between literary and anthropological representations of Caribbean communities, and reflects on the benefits of interdisciplinarity in Caribbean studies.
Tierno Monénembo
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732115
- eISBN:
- 9781604733549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732115.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter analyzes Faulkner’s impact on French West Africa. It recirculates and rereads Faulkner back though the Caribbean via Édouard Glissant, and through France via Maurice Coindreau. The ...
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This chapter analyzes Faulkner’s impact on French West Africa. It recirculates and rereads Faulkner back though the Caribbean via Édouard Glissant, and through France via Maurice Coindreau. The chapter argues that West African writers can identify with the concerns in Faulkner’s fiction because “he tackles two primordial questions of the literature of young nations: language and the relationship with history.”Less
This chapter analyzes Faulkner’s impact on French West Africa. It recirculates and rereads Faulkner back though the Caribbean via Édouard Glissant, and through France via Maurice Coindreau. The chapter argues that West African writers can identify with the concerns in Faulkner’s fiction because “he tackles two primordial questions of the literature of young nations: language and the relationship with history.”
