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9781783484089
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2015-08-21
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Rowman & Littlefield International
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286 gr
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228 mm
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153 mm
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14 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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184
Biographical note
John E. Drabinski is professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. His many publications include Levinas and the Postcolonial (2011), which won the Frantz Fanon Book Prize, Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008) and Sensibility and Singularity (2001). Hi is co-editor of the Journal of French and Francophone Studies. Marisa Parham is associate professor of English at Amherst College. She is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature (2008). Contributors: H. Adlai Murdoch, Professor of French, Tufts University, USA; Seanna Sumalee Oakley, Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA; Clevis Headley, Professor of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, USA; Marisa Parham, Associate Professor of Enlgish, Amherst College, USA; John E. Drabinski, Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College, USA; Hanétha Vété-Conglolo, Associate Professor of French, Bowdoin College; Max Hantel, Graduate Student, Rutgers University, USA; Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Williams College, USA
Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory. His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies. This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical register of Glissant’s thought.
Each of the authors in this collection takes up a different aspect of Glissant’s work and extends it in different directions. twentieth-century French philosophy (Bergson, Badiou, Meillassoux), the cannon of Caribbean literature, North American literature and cultural theory, and contemporary cultural politics in Glissant’s home country of Martinique all receive close, critical treatment. What emerges from this collection is a vision of Glissant as a deeply philosophical thinker, whose philosophical character draws from the deep resources of Caribbean memory and history. Glissant’s central notions of rhizome, chaos, opacity, and creolization are given a deeper and wider appreciation through accounts of those resources in detailed conceptual studies.
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This edited collection gathers together leading commentators on the work of Édouard Glissant in order to theorize the philosophical significance of his work.
Acknowledgments / Introduction: Glissant, Creolizing Philosophy, John E. Drabinski and Marisa Parham / 1. Glissant’s Opacité and the Re-Conceptualization of Identity, H. Adlai Murdoch / 2. In Citation to the Chance: Glissant, Citation, Intention, and Interpretation, Seanna Sumalee Oakley / 3. Glissant’s Existential Ontology of Difference, Clevis Headley / 4. Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization, Max Hantel / 5. The Ripening’s Epic Realism and the Martinican Tragic Unfulfilled Political Emancipation, Hanétha Vété-Congolo / 6. Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation, Marisa Parham / 7. Aesthetics and the Abyss: Between Césaire and Lamming, John E. Drabinski / 8. Marronage between Past and Future: Requiem for Édouard Glissant, Neil Roberts / Notes on Contributors / Index
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Theorizing Glissant highlights the philosophical anchor of Glissant’s work. The collection comprises essays on Glissant’s key concepts; essays that link his work to contemporary philosophical notions; and essays focusing on specific works. In the first category is a discussion of Glissant’s notion of opacité and the urge to reconceptualize identity as dictated by performance through resistance, discontinuities, and adaptations. In the second, Glissant’s work is methodically highlighted as linked to prominent philosophical ideas: Bergson’s duration; Deleuze and Guattari’s difference, being, and becoming; Luce Irigaray’s sexual difference and creolization with ‘the trace of sexual difference … marked in two absences.’ Among the essays on specific works is a reading of The Ripening through Husserl’s phenomenological principles leading to the implementation of conceived ideas, or contre-action aggissante. Identity has to be sought in the hic and nunc without disregard to all its negotiated, sedimentary elements. This allows him to be critical of Césaire and the negritude tenets of return. In sum, this important critique situates Glissant’s work within the framework of the ongoing modern debate on identity, the influx of various cultural trends, and creolization. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781783484089
Publisert
2015-08-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
286 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184