| The Baton Rouge Interviews: With Édouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin Contributor(s): Cooper, Kate M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1789621305 ISBN-13: 9781789621303 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $44.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Interviews - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.45 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer's reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant's concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant's consideration of the many topics broached in this volume: medieval Europe and the creation of nation-states, the evolution of the epic and its global iterations, decolonization, creolization, landscapes and cultures, political engagement vs. the task of the writer, globality, questions of identity and Being. Absolutely the best introduction to Glissant's thought. |