Theorizing Glissant

Sites and Citations

John E. Drabinski, Marisa Parham

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881872274
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism

Édouard Glissant's work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory. His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies.This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical register of Glissant's thought.

Each of the authors in this collection takes up a different aspect of Glissant's work and extends it in different directions. twentieth-century French philosophy (Bergson, Badiou, Meillassoux), the cannon of Caribbean literature, North American literature and cultural theory, and contemporary cultural politics in Glissant's home country of Martinique all receive close, critical treatment. What emerges from this collection is a vision of Glissant as a deeply philosophical thinker, whose philosophical character draws from the deep resources of Caribbean memory and history. Glissant's central notions of rhizome, chaos, opacity, and creolization are given a deeper and wider appreciation through accounts of those resources in detailed conceptual studies.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Glissant’s Opacité and the Re-Conceptualization of Identity
• 2 In Citation to the Chance
• 3 Glissant’s Existential Ontology of Difference
• 4 Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization
• 5 The Ripening’s Epic Realism and the Martinican Tragic Unfulfilled Political Emancipation
• 6 Breadfruit, Time and Again
• 7 Aesthetics and the Abyss
• Marronage between Past and Future
• Index
• About the Contributors