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Poetics of Relation Paperback - 1997
by Glissant, Edouard/ Wing, Betsy
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- Title Poetics of Relation
- Author Glissant, Edouard/ Wing, Betsy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Michigan Pr, Ann Arbor
- Date 1997
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0472066293
- ISBN 9780472066292 / 0472066293
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.45 x 5.48 x 0.85 in (21.46 x 13.92 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Martinique - Civilization - 20th century, Language and culture - Martinique
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97006997
- Dewey Decimal Code 972.982
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From the rear cover
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.