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Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: by Édouard Glissant

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By (author): Celia Britton

This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from LImaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). It covers a wide range of topics but key recurring themes are creolization, language and langage, culture and identity, monolingualism, the Chaos-world and the role of the writer. Migration and the various different kinds of migrants are also discussed, as is the difference between atavistic and composite communities, the art of translation, identity as a rhizome rather than a single root, the Chaos-World and chaos theory, trace thought as opposed to systematic thought, the relation between place and the Whole-World, exoticism, utopias, a new definition of beauty as the realized quantity of differences, the status of literary genres and the possibility that literature as a whole will disappear. Four of the interviews (Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9) relate to particular works that Glissant has published: Tout-monde, Le monde incrée, La Cohée du Lamentin, Une nouvelle région du monde. Many of these themes have been explored in his previous works, but here, because in all the chapters we see Glissant interacting with the questions and views of other people, they are presented in a particularly accessible form. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 163 x 239mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789620979

About Celia Britton

Celia Britton is Emeritus Professor at University College London.

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