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With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant's work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant's philosophy.The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a "new category of literature," and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself.

Paradox in literature. --- Contradiction in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- Glissant, Édouard,

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This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer's reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant's concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant's consideration of the many topics broached in this volume: medieval Europe and the creation of nation-states, the evolution of the epic and its global iterations, decolonization, creolization, landscapes and cultures, political engagement vs. the task of the writer, globality, questions of identity and Being. Absolutely the best introduction to Glissant's thought.

Authors, Martinican --- Glissant, Édouard, --- creole --- diversity --- Caribbean --- postcolonial --- globalisation --- relation --- poetics

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While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the “commonplace” to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attainable, differentially common future. Putting poets Frankétienne (Haiti), Werewere Liking (Côte d’Ivoire), Derek Walcott (St Lucia), and Claudia Rankine (Jamaica) in dialogue with Romantic poets and theorists, as well as with the more recent thinkers Édouard Glissant, Walter Benjamin, and Emmanuel Levinas, Oakley shows how African Atlantic poets formally revive Romantic forms, ranging from the social utopian manifesto to the poète maudit , in their pursuit of a redemptive allegory of African Atlantic experiences. Common Places addresses issues in African and Caribbean literary studies, Romanticism, poetics, rhetorical theory, comparative literature, and translation theory, and further, models a postcolonial critique in the aesthetic-ethical and “new aestheticist” vein.

Literature --- Poetry --- Caribbean poetry --- Cultural pluralism --- African diaspora in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Caribbean literature --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African influences. --- Philosophy --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Walcott, Derek --- Frankétienne --- Rankine, Claudia, --- Franketyèn --- Étienne, Franck --- والكوت، ديرك --- デレク・ウォルコット --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poetics. --- Authors, African. --- African authors --- African literature --- Technique

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This book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The islands’ complex history means that community is a central and problematic issue in their literature, and underlies a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even literary form itself. Britton examines Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée, Edouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, Vincent Placoly’s L’eau-de-mort guildive, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit and Maryse Condé’s Desirada.

Franstalige Caribische letterkunde --- Gemeenschappen in de letterkunde --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde --- Gemeenschappen in de letterkunde. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- Franstalige Caribische letterkunde. --- 82.04 --- 840 <100> --- 840 <100> Franse literatuur: extra muros --- Franse literatuur: extra muros --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- French literature (outside France) --- Fiction --- Caribbean Area --- Culturele identiteit --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Caribbean area --- Caribbean fiction (French) --- Communities in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- French fiction --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Community in literature --- Identity in literature --- History and criticism. --- Nancy, Jean-Luc. --- West Indian fiction (French) --- Literature and society --- Social classes in literature. --- Community life in literature. --- Roumain, Jacques, --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Schwarz-Bart, Simone. --- Placoly, Vincent, --- Chamoiseau, Patrick. --- Maximin, Daniel, --- Condé, Maryse. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- West Indian literature (French) --- Social aspects