...” or perhaps “the unknown world.” Yet if Édouard Glissant is right, this shortcut bred of convenience and contempt aptly names the world-historical significance of the leftovers called “world literature.” This essay reads Glissant's Poetics of Relation as a theory not of Caribbean literature but of world...

..., perceptible and acknowledged, but this is a difference in unity, a Relation in a Tout Monde, as Glissant would have it, whose opacity is as much an ethical imperative as its co-constitution of new life-worlds. And perhaps this, then, is the future for which the African novel can strive: one in which...

... Novel 223 carolyn vellenga berman The Known World in World Literature: Bakhtin, Glissant, and Edward P. Jones 231 scott black Quixotic Realism and the Romance...

.... Walters contends, for example, that for Edward Glissant creolization represents a return not to lost origins so much as to points of entanglement, she suggests that Cliff's novel Abcng portrays an indigenous burial ritual as a practice that references the multiple cu1- tures of both the slaves...

... George Lamming to Maryse Condé to Édouard Glissant, have written in ways quite different from Phillips and Gilroy (whom Goyal likens to Phillips) and in otherwise quite diverse ways of the Caribbean, of particular islands, of parts of islands— and of a Caribbean relationship with Africa (205...

... life in the Caribbean and that is associated more with the work of Édouard Glissant and Edward Kamau Brathwaite than with that of Rhys. ­GoGwilt tries to exploit this tension between fixed identity category and fluid cultural process in his reading of Rhys’s work, and, really, throughout his...

...) or Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation (1997), most scholarship focusing in and around the sea remains in fields like geography, ecology, and history. When literary schol- ars have attended to the sea, such studies have predominantly focused on discrete areas or have been segregated by single-author...

... 1996 Modernity at Large, and Miyoshi’s coedited global- ization volumes of 1998 and 2002. Jay’s chapter on border studies centrally engages influ- ential books by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987), Édouard Glissant (1989 in English translation), Mary Louise Pratt (1992), Paul Gilroy (1993), and Caren Kaplan...

..., Conrad and Faulkner impel the invention of newer forms and figures with which to express the new imperial (and later, postcolonial) world order. 13 See also Edouard Glissant , who notes Faulkner's apparent unease with imputing cause and effect: “One precaution that Faulkner does take (whether...

... Gilroy, Paul, I: 223 Century, I: 261 Glissant, Édouard Hernández, Rita Indiana Poetics of Relation, I: 231 The Strategy of Chochueca, III: 65 global novel, I: 207 heteroglossia, III: 157...

... between white and non-white men at sea. The book's final section turns to "The Triangle from 'Below The attempts of Chsaire, Edouard Glissant, and Maryse Cond6 to imagine a new mode of relation between the Caribbean and Africa are considered, here, as is Ousmane Sembene's Dockworker, about...

... and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution . Durham: Duke UP, 2004 . Gates , Henry Louis , Jr ., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives , New York: Signet, 2002 . Glissant , Édouard . The Fourth Century . Trans. Betsy Wing. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2001 . Hartman , Saidiya...

... planetary array of melancholy facts, scenes, images, and fictions of history" (226). In the wake of Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Roach, and others, Baucom proposes an "Atlantic frame for a renovated geo-graphics or geo-optics of the modern" (227). The "global" and the "planetary" first...

..., comparative project I am currently working on that identifies and analyzes an “anthropological turn” in transatlantic literature of the 1950s, focusing on the writers Barbara Pym, Bellow, and Édouard Glissant and the anthropologists Laura Bohannan, Mary Douglas, and Michel Leiris. 7...

... and overlapping in disturbing ways with the practice of everyday life. As Edwards notes, Édouard Glissant theorizes the detour as immanently connected to the colonial: “Detour is the ultimate resort of a population whose domination by an Other is concealed: it then must search elsewhere for the principle...