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An edition of Poetics of relation (1997)

Poetics of relation

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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.

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Language
English
Pages
226

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Poetics of relation
1997, University of Michigan Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).

Published in
Ann Arbor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972.98/2
Library of Congress
F2081.8 .G5513 1997, F2081.8.G5513 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 226 p. ;
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL661551M
Internet Archive
poeticsofrelatio0000glis
ISBN 10
047209629X, 0472066293
LCCN
97006997
OCLC/WorldCat
36417844
Library Thing
806923
Goodreads
444809
3660353

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