Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148) and index.
Contents:
4. Ouvrages généraux, critiques et articles. Glissant et l'histoire -- L'Afrique dans les paradigmes littéraires -- Repenser l'esclavage aujourd'hui -- 2. L'exceptionnalité archipélique -- L'esprit du lieu -- La trace : Reconstitution et reconstruction -- La situation actuelle de l'archipel -- 3. La France hostile -- Le débat sur l'identité nationale -- Le diagnostic d'Édouard Glissant et de Patrick Chamoiseau -- Les alternatives d'Édouard Glissant et de Patrick Chamoiseau -- 4. Vers des totalités imaginaires -- Le Tout-monde -- Éloge du divers et des différences -- Ouvrages d'Édouard Glissant à l'étude -- Ouvrages généraux, critiques et articles.
Summary:
In his last works published a few years before his death in 2011, Édouard Glissant renewed the political content and poetic form of his representations of Martinique and France, of the Rest of the World and the West, which he summoned in his Tout-monde, the "kay tout moun", the world in its totality perceived as "the home of all, [which] belongs to all and [whose] equilibrium passes through the equilibrium of all". In his "political interventions," from Une Nouvelle région du monde (2006) to La Terre, le feu, l'eau et les vents : An Anthology of the Poetry of the Whole World (2010), Glissant captures the eventful not without telling the limpid reality of the Whole World through the updating of his opaque theories conceptualized in his early landmark writings such as Le Discours antillais (1981), Poetics of Relation (1990) and Introduction to a Poetics of the Diverse (1996). Glissant invites humanity, or rather the humanities, to distance itself from any systems thinking defined and governed globally by globalization, a subtle variant of neoliberal capitalism. Without imposing any single model, he proposes Relation and Mundiality as alternatives allowing any being of the world to go to the meeting of the other to change and exchange with him or her "without getting lost". Ensuring a true inclusive and equitable visibility at all levels, these possibilities are ways of living present and future in harmony with the world that is unpredictably creolizing day by day.-- Translation of page 4 of cover.
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