Poetics of Relation

Name: Poetics of Relation
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ISBN: 9780472066292

ISBN-10: 0472066293

ISBN-13: 9780472066292

Edition: 1997

Authors: Edouard Glissant, Betsy Wing, Edouard Glissant

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Eacute;douard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his native land in the mid-sixties, his writing began to focus on the idea of a "relational poetics," which laid the groundwork for the "creacute;oliteacute;" movement, fueled by the understanding that Caribbean culture and identity are the positive products of a complex and multiple set of local historical circumstances. Some of the metaphors of local identity Glissant favored--the hinterland (or…

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 9/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Betsy Wing is a writer and translator whose fiction collection Look Out for Hydrophobia appeared in 1991. She is the translator of Western and The Origin of Man by Christine Montalbetti, as well as works by Assia Djebar, Paule Constant, and ï¿½douard Glissant.