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Édouard Glissant: A Poetics of Resistance

Autor Sam Coombes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iul 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350036840
ISBN-10: 1350036846
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The author, Sam Coombes is an expert in French literature and philosophy and postcolonial studies and so is perfectly positioned to write this book

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTIONPART 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 SchemaPART TWO: Creolisation, Anti-Universalism and Twenty-First Century Radical ThoughtChapter 3. Creolisation and Creoleness: Proximity and DivergenceChapter 4. The Paradoxes of Universalism and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial conditionChapter 5. Glissant: Postmodernist Apologist for Neoliberal-led Globalization?Chapter 6. Glissant's latter-day Political CommitmentsPART THREE: Envisioning the Twenty-First Century Otherwise: Utopianism, Anarchism and the Critique of NeoliberalismChapter 7. Globalization and Its Critics: Neoliberalism, Alter-Globalization and Contemporary AnarchismChapter 8. A Poetics of Resistance and Change: Glissant, a Maître à penser for 21st Century Dissident Thought?BIBLIOGRAPHY

Recenzii

This study is striking for the intelligence of its composition and its arguments, which allow us to paint a unique portrait of Edouard Glissant as a thinker of the globalized world today...
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.
Arguing that the tension between minoritarian and hegemonic cultures is at the heart of Edouard Glissant's entire theoretical enterprise, Coombes offers us a spirited and informed refutation of charges of political quietism in Glissant's later works. Far from being a sign of political naïveté, the utopian nature of Glissant's political thought is shown to be a necessary prelude to a new progressive, liberatory politics. This is a welcome introduction to the ideas of a major contemporary political theorist.
To divide the thought of Edouard Glissant into an early period of Caribbean radical politics on the one hand and a mature phase advancing a depolitized cosmopolitan life of the mind on the other distorts Glissant's legacy. Sam Coombes rescues Glissant from facile naysayers upholding this misrepresentation. He does so through examination of the late Glissant on creolization, immigration, neoliberal political economy, negotiations of universalism and particularism, and visions of human existence that acknowledge nation-state politics while also providing alternative futures for everyday people to resist enslaving dynamics of globalization. A single word captures that project's implication: freedom.