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The Baton Rouge Interviews: With Édouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin

The Baton Rouge Interviews: With Édouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin

Cooper, Kate M.

Hardcover

Series: The Glissant Translation Project, Book 2

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1789620961
ISBN13: 9781789620962
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 2 2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer's reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant's concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant's consideration of the many topics

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