Caribbean Discourse: Selected EssaysSelected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency. Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse is an unflaggingly ambitious attempt to read the Caribbean and the New World experience, not as a response to fixed, univocal meaning imposed by the past, but as an infinitely varied, dauntingly inexhaustible text. |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Introductions | 1 |
The Known the Uncertain | 13 |
THE CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE | 53 |
HISTORYHISTORIESSTORIES | 61 |
CrossCultural Poetics | 97 |
LANDSCAPES LAND | 110 |
POETICS | 120 |
LANGUAGES SELFEXPRESSION | 171 |
THEATER CONSCIOUSNESS | 195 |
A Caribbean Future | 221 |
VOICES | 237 |
Event | 246 |
Table of the Diaspora | 257 |
Sources of Documents Reprinted in This Volume | 271 |
An Exploded Discourse | 156 |
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