Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472066292
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2025-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1802068066
‘We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.’ In Poetics of Relation, his most celebrated philosophical work, Édouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. 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 revolutionising mentalities and reshaping societies. We are not rooted, but ever-changing; we have a right to opacity and to difference, wherever we are. Told in scintillating prose, this unique exploration of language, slavery, and poetic freedom narrates an Antillean identity, but also that of the whole world.
Author : Edouard Glissant
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2025-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241733110
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : NIGHTBOAT BOOKS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780982264539
This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant’s classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Saint-John Perse, and visual artists, such as the Surrealist painters Matta and Wilfredo Lam, arguing for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the “way of the world.” Capacious, inventive, and unique, Glissant’s Poetic Intention creates a new landscape for understanding the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813913735
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.
Author : EDOUARD. GLISSANT
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781937658953
Author : Kevin Quashie
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1478021322
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition—Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question “how to be.” In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy of being, which is nothing less than a philosophy of the becoming of the Black world.
Author : Lynda Ng
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1925818071
After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language. Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.
Author : Walter Watson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226875083
Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics".
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496224752
A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book Édouard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people's loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. These characters' lives are viewed back and forth over centuries of time and through tales of resistance, linked always by the now-ancient mahogany tree. Attempting to untangle the collective memory of Martinique, Mathieu, the contemporary narrator, creates a conscious history of these people in that place--a record that unearths the mechanics of misrepresentation to get at the fundamental, enduring truths of that history, perhaps as only the mahogany tree knows it.
