E. douard Glissant Knihy

Román, předního francouzského spisovatele kreolské literatury, rozehrává scénu, která je dodnes noční můrou kreolské kultury a symbolem otroctví: útěk otroka z třtinové plantáže do zakázaných lesů, za nímž jeho pán poštve krvelačné psy.

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant’s classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Saint-John Perse, and visual artists, such as the Surrealist painters Matta and Wilfredo Lam, arguing for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the “way of the world.” Capacious, inventive, and unique, Glissant’s Poetic Intention creates a new landscape for understanding the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

The Fourth Century tells of the quest by young Mathieu Béluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique. Aware that the officially recorded version he learned in school omits and distorts, he turns to a quimboiseur named Papa Longoué. This old man of the forest, a healer, seer, and storyteller, knows the oral tradition and its relation to the powers of the land and the forces of nature. He tells of the love-hate relationship between the Longoué and Béluse families, whose ancestors were brought as slaves to Martinique. Upon arrival, Longoué immediately escaped and went to live in the hills as a maroon. Béluse remained in slavery. The intense relationship that had formed between the two men in Africa continued and came to encompass the relations between their masters, or, in the case of Longoué, his would-be master, and their descendants. The Fourth Century closes the gap between the families as Papa Longoué, last of his line, conveys the history to Mathieu Béluse, who becomes his heir.

This volume collects and translates--most for the first time--the nine volumes of poetry published by Édouard Glissant, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The poems bring to life what Glissant calls "an archipela

The multiple narrators in this novel grapple with their unrecorded history on Martinique, first as slaves and then in relation to the wider world.

"Manifestos brings together for the first time in English the manifestos written by Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau between 2000 and 2009. Composed in part in the aftermath of Barack Obama's election in 2008, the texts resonate with the current context of divided identities and criticisms of multiculturalism. The individual texts grapple with concrete historical and political moments in France, the Caribbean, and North America. Across the manifestos, as well as two collectively signed op-eds, the authors engage with socio-political aspects of climate catastrophe, resource extraction, toxicity, and neocolonialism. Throughout the collection, Glissant and Chamoiseau engage with key themes articulated through their poetic vocabulary, including Relation, globalization, globality (mondialité), anti-universalism, métissage, the tout-monde ("whole-world") and the tout-vivant ("all-living," including the relationship of humans to each other and "nature"), créolité and the creolization of the world, and the liberation from community assignations in response to individualism and neoliberal societies. Translated as the first volume in the Planetarities series with Goldsmiths Press, the themes of Manifestos resonate with the planetary as they work in response to contemporary forms of (economic) globalization, western capitalism, identity politics, and urban, digital and cosmic ecosystems, as well as the role of the poet-writer. A distinguishing feature of this publication is its interventional aspect, which prioritizes engaged scholarship and practice while demonstrating the relevance of the poetic in response to the urgencies of planetary crisis"-- Amazon

Eine Einführung in die Poetik des wichtigsten Autors der französischsprachigen Karibik. Édouard Glissant hat das Aufeinandertreffen unterschiedlicher Kulturen stets als positiv betrachtet und daraus eine »Poetik der Vielheit« entwickelt, die uns ermöglicht, den Prozeß der Globalisierung auch als kulturelles Phänomen zu begreifen. In vier Essays skizziert er die Argumentation seiner Kulturphilosophie. Den Prozeß der »Globalisierung« der Welt hat der Romancier, Poet und Kulturphilosoph Édouard Glissant frühzeitig als kulturelle Tendenz ausgemacht und beschrieben. Er fand ihn als kreative Kraft im Zusammenleben der verschiedenen Kulturen seiner Heimat Martinique. Glissant konnte mit seiner »Poetik der Vielheit« die fragmentarische Theorie der weltweiten Beziehung entwerfen, die uns das philosophische Werkzeug liefert, um die Globaliserung als kulturelles Phänomen zu begreifen. Eine Poetik, die die Grenzen des Ästhetischen hinter sich läßt und sich aus ethnologischen, psychologischen und soziologischen Erkenntnissen speist. Mit »Kultur und Identität« liegt nun eine Zusammenfassung seines Ansatzes vor. Ein Glossar der Übersetzerin zu den Schlüsselbegriffen des Autors erleichtert den Zugang zum Gesamtwerk Édouard Glissants. Nicht nur für Studierende ein ideales Handbuch.

Die Osterinsel, isoliert im Pazifik, wird durch die Erlebnisse von Sylvie Glissant lebendig, die unter extremen Bedingungen dorthin reist. Édouard Glissant analysiert ihre Berichte und erkundet die kulturellen Spuren der Inselbewohner, die trotz ihrer Isolation eine neue Perspektive auf die globalisierte Welt bieten.