TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glissant, Edouard
AU  - Wing, Betsy
TI  - Poetics of Relation
SN  - 9780472066292
AV  - F2081.8.G5513 
U1  - 972.98'2-- 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - USA
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - F2001-2151 History of the Americas- Lesser Antilles
N2  - 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
ER  -