Édouard Glissant: a Poetics of Resistance

by Sam Coombes

Overview

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation.

Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant's thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant's vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350036833
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/26/2018
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Édouard Glissant (1928 – 2011) was a Martinican philosopher, poet, author and literary critic.

Sam Coombes is Senior Lecturer and member of the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: Later Glissantian Thought as Alternative Perspective on Globalisation

Chapter 1. Poetics of Relation (1990): a Manifesto for the 21st Century?
Chapter 2. From Relation to the 'common-place': the Later Glissantian Conceptual Schema

PART TWO: Creolisation, Anti-Universalism and Twenty-First Century Radical Thought

Chapter 3. Creolisation and Creoleness: Proximity and Divergence
Chapter 4. The Paradoxes of Universalism and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial condition
Chapter 5. Glissant: Postmodernist Apologist for Neoliberal-led Globalization?
Chapter 6. Glissant's latter-day Political Commitments

PART THREE: Envisioning the Twenty-First Century Otherwise: Utopianism, Anarchism and the Critique of Neoliberalism

Chapter 7. Globalization and Its Critics: Neoliberalism, Alter-Globalization and Contemporary Anarchism
Chapter 8. A Poetics of Resistance and Change: Glissant, a Maître à penser for 21st Century Dissident Thought?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editorial Reviews

"Coombes's chronological engagement with the texts provides a well-informed theoretical panorama of Glissant and of postcolonialism, globalism, and immigration in emerging, modern, multifaceted societies ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE

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