Two years ago, I was reading works by
Edouard Glissant, the well-known French writer, poet and philosopher who was also born in Martinique, and the islander in me resurfaced like a deep history - subliminal but powerful and essential.
Paying special attention to the poetics in his nonfiction writings, Drabinski presents a long meditation on and philosophical treatment of the work of francophone Martinique poet, philosopher, and literary critic
Edouard Glissant (1928-2011), who had a strong influence in Caribbean thought.
Partant de cette pensee critique africaine, ajoute Amina Medde, le Salon sera cette annee l'occasion de decliner l'idee d'une mondialite positive, celle promue par
Edouard Glissant a travers l'expression tout monde, dans les differents registres narratifs, en litterature, en histoire, en poesie ou en art.
S'appuyant sur Deleuze et Guattari,
Edouard Glissant fait la distinction entre la pensee racine et la pensee du rhizome (Poetique 59).
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Edouard Glissant lo ha llamado "archipielagizacion de la deportacion de africanos como una realidad, pero una muy valiosa" (2011, p.
garden and their experience of
Edouard Glissant's model of
EDOUARD GLISSANT, MARTINIQUE WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER
Edouard Glissant procurou, ao longo de toda a sua trajetoria, pensar as condicoes de producao de uma subjetividade e de uma historia antilhanas a partir de categorias que--embora formuladas em dialogo com os debates europeus, considerassem nao apenas a diversidade de modos de vida e de cosmovisoes presentes na regiao, mas a propria materialidade do arquipelago em sua relacao com o oceano: lugar de passagem, de contatos (duradouros e efemeros, harmonicos e desarmonicos) e de identidades diasporicas.
From this avowedly apocalyptic perspective, Munro briefly considers the contributions to the issue of thinkers such as Aime Cesaire, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, and
Edouard Glissant. He views the latter two as representatives of an anti-apocalyptic trend in Caribbean thought and thus discrepant with the perspective he is articulating here, but given the Haitian focus of the study, his engagement with them is necessarily if regrettably cursory.
In the closing essay of his seminal Caribbean Discourse,
Edouard Glissant distinguishes between the identification of Caribbeanness as both a dream and a reality; "The notion of antillanite, or Caribbeanness, emerges from a reality that we will have to question, but also corresponds to a dream that we must clarify and whose legitimacy must be demonstrated" (Glissant 221).