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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824731403321

Titolo

Theorizing Glissant : sites and citations / / edited by John E. Drabinski and Marisa Parham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-409-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Creolizing the canon

Disciplina

841/.914

Soggetti

Creoles in literature

West Indies, French In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Glissant's Opacité and the Re-Conceptualization of Identity; 2 In Citation to the Chance; 3 Glissant's Existential Ontology of Difference; 4 Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization; 5 The Ripening's Epic Realism and the Martinican Tragic Unfulfilled Political Emancipation; 6 Breadfruit, Time and Again; 7 Aesthetics and the Abyss; Marronage between Past and Future; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This edited collection gathers together leading commentators on the work of Édouard Glissant in order to theorize the philosophical significance of his work.</span></span>