Poetics of Relation / Edouard Glissant; Betsy Wing

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA; University of Michigan Press; 1997Description: 256pISBN:

9780472066292

Subject(s):

F2001-2151 History of the Americas- Lesser Antilles

DDC classification:

972.98'2-- dc21

LOC classification:

F2081.8.G5513

Summary: In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the Antilles as enduring suffering imposed by history, yet 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 to provide forms of memory capable of transcending "nonhistory," Glissant 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	History of the Americas	F2001-2151 20.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3944

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In Poetics of Relation, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the Antilles as enduring suffering imposed by history, yet 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 to provide forms of memory capable of transcending "nonhistory," Glissant 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.

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