Édouard Glissant

Bio: Édouard Glissant is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poetics & The Imaginary. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 50 publications receiving 3010 citations.

Poetics of relation

Abstract: In Poetics of Relation, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Edouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring an "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 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 Poetics of Relation, 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.

Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays

Abstract: 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 of cultural dependency.

Poétique de la relation

Abstract: The concept of the “Poetics of Relation” as defined by the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant seemed to entertain echoes and resonances with the work of the Lebanese novelist and essayist Amin Maalouf. Such an approach may seem biased with respect to geographical, cultural and poetic differences between the two works. But such a reading also seemed to us to be consistent with the sense of a journey, of an itinerary and of a crossing at the heart of the thinking of the Relation which, as Edouard Glissant writes, “links (relays) relates”. The reading of this contribution is conceived here as a meeting place that convenes two thoughts and two imaginary and seeks to build relationships between them.

Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

Abstract: Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Now 1 1. Blackness: The Human 17 2. Bare Life: The Flesh 33 3. Assemblages: Articulation 46 4. Racism: Biopolitics 53 5. Law: Property 74 6. Depravation: Pornotropes 89 7. Deprivation: Hunger 113 8. Freedom: Soon 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 181 Index 205

Hybridity: The Cultural Logic Of Globalization

Abstract: Chapter 1: Cultural Hybridity and International Communication Chapter 2: Scenarios of Global Culture Chapter 3: The Trails and Tales of Hybridity Chapter 4: Corporate Transculturalism Chapter 5, The Political Economy of Hybrid Media Texts Chapter 6, Identity on the Line: Growing up Hybrid Chapter 7: Hybridity Without Guarantees: Towards Critical Transculturalism

Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

Abstract: Introduction Anthropology and the Savage Slot Global Transformations Adieu, Culture The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization Anthropology for a Changing World A Note on Methodology: Beyond Fieldwork Who Needs Anthropologists?

A Transnational Poetics

Abstract: Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous - 'stubbornly national,' in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or 'the most provincial of the arts,' according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics", Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination - in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post-World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates - globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora - he discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres. Exceptionally wide-ranging in scope yet rigorously focused on particulars, "A Transnational Poetics" demonstrates how poetic analysis can foster an aesthetically attuned transnational literary criticism that is at the same time alert to modernity's global condition.

The Uses of Diaspora

Abstract: Les travaux d'etude historique de la culture et de la politique africaines sur le plan international font appel au concept de diaspora, qui n'a emerge que recemment, afin d'exprimer les liens et traits communs parmi les groupes de descendance africaine a travers le monde. L'A. entreprend une histoire intellectuelle du concept de diaspora africaine, dans une perspective epistemologique