by Édouard Glissant ; translated by Betsy Wing
- Author(s)
- Édouard Glissant
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan , 1997
- Scope
- 226 Pages, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780472066292
Édouard Glissant focusses on the idea of a "relational poetics," which laid the groundwork for the "créolité" movement, fueled by the understanding that Caribbean culture and identity are the positive products of a complex and multiple set of local historical circumstances. 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. In Glissant's view, 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.
- Keywords
- multiculturality , sociology , decolonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 3: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Algemeen
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliographical References ; first published in French in 1990 ; (temporarily located Kast 30 -4 : Tentacular Thinking / Mind Map)
