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" Poetics of relation / "
Édouard Glissant ; translated by Betsy Wing
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BL
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583587
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b412806
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| Uniform Title
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Poétique de la relation.English
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| Main Entry
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Glissant, Édouard,1928-2011
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Poetics of relation /\ Édouard Glissant ; translated by Betsy Wing
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, ©1997
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xxiii, 226 pages ;; 22 cm
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047209629X
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: 9780472096299
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: 0472066293
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: 9780472066292
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| Notes
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Includes glossary
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226)
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| Contents
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The open boat -- Errantry, exile -- Poetics -- A rooted errantry -- Repetitions -- Expanse and filiation -- Closed place, open word -- Concerning a Baroque abroad in the world -- Concerning the poem's information -- Creolizations -- Dictate, decree -- To build the tower -- Transparency and opacity -- The black beach -- Relation -- The relative and chaos -- Distancing, determining -- That that -- Relinked, (relayed), related -- Generalization -- That those beings be not being -- For opacity -- Open circle, lived relation -- The burning beach
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In this book, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring as "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 this book 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
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Language and culture-- Martinique
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Nationalism and literature-- Martinique
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French language-- Martinique
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Creole dialects, French-- Martinique
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Martinique, Civilization, 20th century
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Martinique, Dependency on France
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West Indies, French, Relations, France
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France, Relations, West Indies, French
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| Dewey Classification
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972.98/2
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F2081.8.G5513 1997
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Wing, Betsy
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