Edouard Glissant

Edouard Glissant / J. Michael Dash.

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 asse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dash, J. Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1995.
Series:Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
Subjects:
Glissant, Édouard, > 1928-2011 > Criticism and interpretation.
Glissant, Édouard, > 1928-2011
Literature
French Literature.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Literatura expressao francesa.
West Indies, French > In literature.
Caribbean Area > In literature.
Caribbean Area
Lesser Antilles > West Indies, French
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Contexts
  • 2. The poetic intention: Un champ diles, La terre inquiete, Les Indes, Soleil de la conscience
  • 3. Novels of time and space: La Lezarde, Le quatrieme siecle
  • 4. Writing the 'real country': L'intention poetique, Malemort, Boises, Monsieur Toussaint
  • 5. Towards a theory of Antillanite: La case du commandeur, Le discours antillais
  • 6. A poetics of chaos: Pays reve, pays reel, mahagony, Poetique de la relation.

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