...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...

...Bonnie Thomas Renowned Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé has been a practitioner of littérature-monde for decades. Despite her seminal role in French Caribbean literature she has never limited the subject of her writings, nor her physical inhabitation, to a single confined space. Her extensive...

... deterritorialize an oeuvre known for its grounded, rooted character, and thus important approaches for landscaping a global South and, by extension, a contemporary world literature. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Tout-Monde world literature surrealism global South Glissant Je ne pourrais pas dire avec...

...Martin Munro The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article...

... du Tout-Monde (1997). De cette philosophie de la relation découle une Poétique du divers (1995) dont les catégories unissent à une vision esthétique du monde, une éthique de l'action politique. Diversité, métissage, « creolization » : à une saisie de l'identité comme « identité-souche », pivotante...

... Kundera's theorization of the (globalized) European novel is vitiated by its ignorance of the critical ground covered by Caribbean thinkers, equally the manifesto in favour of `une littérature-monde' –surprisingly signed by Glissant ( Le Monde, 2007) – also distorts the complex interconnections of European...

...Kaiama L. Glover In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary...

... 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...

... contrast, identity is formed through contacts with others within the nexus of Relation and créolisation , whereas in his 2006 Une nouvelle région du monde , it is largely a question of the relationship between human beings and place. In this essay, Glissant's ideas are compared with those of the theorists...

... the `Tout-monde', to the postcolonial world as a whole; and this second period coincides with his becoming a much better known figure, particularly in the United States. As an illustration of Glissant's influence beyond the francophone Caribbean, I compare the analyses of his trajectory given by Chris...

... foreign-born, French-speaking writers, including the New York–born novelist Jonathan Littel, Alan Mabanckou from Congo, Nancy Houston from Canada, and Léonora Miano from Camer- oon. Seizing on this historic moment, the manifesto “Pour une littérature-monde en franҫais” triumphantly declared that “le...

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...Les battements des ailes des papillons peuvent déclencher des tornades au tour du monde ( The Flapping of the Wings of Butterflies Can Generate Violent Storms around the World ), 2014. Wood and textiles; 200 cm × various widths. DakArt Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar Senegal Les...

... to read La Lézarde, Malemort, La case du commandeur, Mahagony, and Tout-Monde, it became clear to me that Glissant was an unmistakably great writer; and although later on he became more famous as an essayist, it is his novels that for me represent his greatest achievement.1 Rather than...

... accompanied by the inauguration of the Prix Edouard Glissant in 2002, the founda- tion of the Institut du Tout-monde in Paris in 2007, and the publication of English-language translations and other material, such as the Baton Rouge interviews from 1990–91 (published by Gallimard in 2008...

... son monde et l’univers théâtral n’est l’univers de personne », rappelle Anne Ubersfeld, contrairement au roman où le narrateur régit son monde6. Le défi d’adapter au théâtre la trilogie romanesque haïtienne réside précisément pour Pliya dans des choix stratégiques à opérer en...

... conglomeration was prefigured by the créolité of the region. They claim, “Nous étions l'anticipation du contact des cultures, du monde futur qui s'annonce déjà.” 5 This privileged anticipatory condition allowed for the productive assaying of new aesthetic and philosophical possibilities. In other words, the...

... vice versa 14 . En réalité le propos dénonce, revendique, à partir d’une logique militante peu soucieuse d’une critique préalable des notions utilisées. Que signifie « une pleine et entière souveraineté » dans le contexte caraïbe ? Qu’est-ce qu’une « vraie culture » dans un monde créole ? À la...

... Césaire, Léopold Senghor, and Léon Damas. Négritude becomes a “story of representative colored men,” he notes (pp. 120–21). Who can forget Aimé Césaire’s disparaging negation of the soeurs Nardal’s Clamart salon and bilingual journal La Revue du monde noir/Th e Review of the Black...