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...Betsy Wing This essay briefly describes the process of working with the author Édouard Glissant in translating his works, with a particular focus on the novel Mahagony . It explores the extent to which a personal relationship with the author provides both special insights and frustration...

...Celia Britton The theme of identity runs throughout Édouard Glissant's work and constitutes one of his most original contributions to postcolonial thought. It is always considered in relation to change, but his formulations of both identity and change themselves change in the course of his career...

...Eric Prieto To someone who studies the Caribbean, a striking feature of the 2007 Littérature-monde manifesto is its deep debt to the thought of one of its most prestigious signatories: Edouard Glissant. The very title of the manifesto hints at this influence, through its use of the hyphenated...

...J. Michael Dash While there is an attempt to install Edouard Glissant as a literary patriarch after his death, we should not forget his interest in a poetics of risk that was tied to Michel Leiris's fascination with primitive rituals in general and the bullfight in particular. Glissant's well-known...

...”: A Tribute to Edouard Glissant Celia Britton I was first introduced to Edouard Glissant’s work in the late 1980s by Bridget Jones. I was then at Reading University, where Bridget taught for a year after leaving the University of the West Indies, and where she introduced a new—and for the times...

...Max Hantel “The intellectual journey,” Edouard Glissant reminds us, “is destined to have a geographical itinerary.” This essay considers Glissant's insistence on a poetics of landscape in the case of translation, a practice that intertwines linguistic transition with the spatial residue of its...

...Jeannine Murray-Román In the early 1990s, chaos theory captured the imagination of Caribbean writers by offering a new approach to interpreting scientific data. In its analysis of Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation alongside Antonio Benítez-Rojo's introduction to The Repeating Island...

... action that will be effective in the era of globalization. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Edouard Glissant Celia M. Britton Between the publication of Le discours antillais in 1981 and Poétique de la Relation in 1990, Glissant’s work undergoes...

... and yet their work has been little studied in the anglophone world. This article focuses on Martinican intellectual Edouard Glissant's contribution to memory studies through his combined role as theoretician (in works such as his 2007 publication Mémoires des esclavages ) and practician (in his role...

... inescapable enmeshment of blackness and whiteness within the Plantation walls. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 “We are all related”: Edouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler Valérie Loichot Mita kuye oyasin . . . we are all related. —Edouard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi So many relatives that I had...

... rights reserved. 2008 BOOK DISCUSSION: Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié, edited by Edward Sullivan. Miami: American Art Corporation, 2007; 207 pages; ISBN 978-0- 9790865-2-6 (cloth). The Continental Conversations of Edouard Duval Carrié Jerry Philogene Ab s t r...

... Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié LeGrace Benson Ab s t r a c t : With his painting and sculpture, Duval Carrié creates mise-en-scène in which viewers become vicarious participants in four acts of the transatlantic drama of violation of sovereignties...

...Edward J. Sullivan This essay revisits the arguments in Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié . The book's editor looks at how the volume (a mid-career survey of the Haitian artist) was conceived and at its contributions to the study of modern Haitian art and visuality. The author...

...Edouard Duval Carrié Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Life in the North Caribbean Edouard Duval Carrié It’s a long and quite complicated story, that of Haiti, and my place in it. In my case and in that of my island nation the motto is how do we avert tragedy when in a whirlwind...

...Edouard Glissant ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 In Remembrance of Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire in dialogue with translators Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith, 12 June 1982. Photograph taken by A. James Arnold in Césaire’s apartment in Paris. Permission granted...

... theoretical concepts elaborated by Édouard Glissant, particularly that of Tout-monde , or the “Whole-World,” as a way to understand his role as a Haitian writer and publisher in a contemporary globalized context. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Rodney Saint-Éloi Édouard Glissant Tout-monde...

... over a period of years in order to arrive at answers to questions of mutual concern. And it argues that the authors of the Éloge , unlike their cultural forefathers in Martinique, Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, missed an opportunity to include creative people outside of their own francophone...

...Elizabeth Duchanaud With the traditional parameters of what constitutes history and historical event as alienating as colonization itself for the francophone Caribbean, Edouard Glissant argues to historicize alienation by plotting new forms of resistance against domination and oppression, forms...

.... Hailing from across the Caribbean region (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti) but now living and working in western metropolitan centers (New York, Montreal, Paris), Maryse Condé, Edouard Glissant, Danny Laferrière, Lyonel Trouillot and Gary Victor all straddle and travel the “spaces” of contact between...

...Charles Forsdick The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization...