Edouard Glissant [Hardcover]

First full-length study of influential novelist, poet and theorist of Caribbean and post-colonial literature.The reputable novelist and poet has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and postcolonial literature. This first full-length study examines his works in the context of modern French literary movements as well as the cross-cultural politics of the Caribbean.The reputable novelist and poet has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and postcolonial literature. This first full-length study examines his works in the context of modern French literary movements as well as the cross-cultural politics of the Caribbean.Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and postcolonial literature. In this first full-length study of Glissant's creative and theoretical work J. Michael Dash examines his poems, novels, plays and essays in the context of modern French literary movements and the post-negritude Caribbean situation, providing both a useful introduction to, and a challenging assessment of, Glissant's work to date. Dash shows how Glissant has focused in an unprecedented way on the Caribbean in terms of the diverse and hybrid culture that has been created in the region, and how his ideas on a cross-cultural politics are the shaping force in the Francophone Caribbean Creolite movement.1. Contexts; 2. The poetic intention: Un champ d'?les, La terre inqui?te, Les Indes, Soleil de la conscience; 3. Novels of time and space: La l?zarde, Le quatri?me si?cle; 4. Writing the 'real country': L'intention po?tique, Malemort, Boises, Monsieur Toussaint; 5. Towards a theory of Antillanit?: La case du commandeur, Le discours antillais; 6. A poetics of chaos: Pays r?v?, pays r?el, Mahagony, Po?tique de la relation. Dash does a masterly job of discussing the important themes, images, and structures of Glissant's work as a poet, a novelist, and an essls%