Poetics of Relation
by Edouard Glissant
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In this book, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher E?douard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring as "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Arguing that the writer alone can tap the unconscious of a people and apprehend its multiform culture in order to provide forms of show more memory and intent capable of transcending "nonhistory," Glissant therefore 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. In this book we come to see that relation in all its senses--telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings--is the key to transforming mentalities and reshaping societies. The issues raised about identity as built in relation and not in isolation are central to current discussions not only of Caribbean creolization but of U.S. multiculturalism as well. show lessTags
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Two lines from Poetics of Relation:
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We are not prompted solely by the defining of our identities but by their relation to everything possible as well – the mutual mutations generated by this interplay of relations.
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Understood in its full-sense, passion for the land where one lives is a start, an action we must endlessly risk.
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We are not prompted solely by the defining of our identities but by their relation to everything possible as well – the mutual mutations generated by this interplay of relations.
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Understood in its full-sense, passion for the land where one lives is a start, an action we must endlessly risk.
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Edouard Glissant currently serves as Distinguished Professor of French at City University of New York, Graduate Center.
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Poétique de la relation
- Original publication date
- 1990
- Epigraph
- Sea is History.
Derek Walcott
The unity is sub-marine.
Edward Kamau Brathwaite - Dedication
- for Michael Smith, assassinated poet
for the archipelagos laden with palpable death
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, History
- DDC/MDS
- 972.982 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean Windward Islands and other southern islands Martinique
- LCC
- F2081.8 .G5513 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Lesser Antilles Individual islands
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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