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Edouard Glissant: "the act of writing for a West Indian, engages him a little more"

Publication date 03/12/1958 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Pierre DESGRAUPES interviews the West Indian writer and poet Edouard GLISSANT on what the art of writing represents for a West Indian. He thinks that in this period of easier communication between peoples, it is interesting to know more about the ways of feeling, to talk about others. I think that tomorrow’s civilization will be a constituent of all the data that will be synthesized".

Edouard Glissant: Places of Alienation

Publication date 13/10/1988 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

The Caribbean poet and writer Edouard GLISSANT explains that the plantation system, in the slave system, allowed a social fabric, a social body thanks to which the slave had a drive for popular cultural creation. This crop collapsed with the collapse of the plantation system. He returns to the remarks he makes in his book "The Caribbean discourse" about strategic places of alienation (centers, schools, stadiums, social security...), which "are not linked to a collective project", "the decisions come from elsewhere"... All this leads to "...a lack of confidence in itself... a progressive inability to decide one’s own fate... which constitutes a deep germ of alienation"

Edouard Glissant: chestnut is a cultural way of being

Publication date 13/10/1988 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

The West Indian poet and writer Edouard GLISSANT returns to the phenomenon of brown swimming during the period of slavery which is for him "a cultural mode of being". In all West Indies there is the part of the West Indies that accepts and that which is brown. And this phenomenon of cultural marooning characterizes the production of Caribbean and Caribbean writers, regardless of the language in which they write.

Edouard Glissant: Creole has not yet passed from the state of ordinary language to the state of literary language

Publication date 03/12/1958 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Pierre DESGRAUPES interviews the Caribbean poet and writer Edouard GLISSANT explains that he writes in French because he is a man of French culture. He also thinks that Creole is not yet a literary language because it is not yet sufficiently constituted.

Edouard Glissant: his life in Martinique, his studies

Publication date 03/12/1958 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Pierre DESGRAUPES interviews the West Indian poet and writer Edouard GLISSANT who evokes his studies and especially his association with the children of peasants and agricultural workers in his childhood. He thinks it feels in his book "The Lizard".

Edouard Glissant on the West Indian peoples: "How could we have started from oppression...build a vision of a plural man?"

Publication date 24/02/1998 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Laure ADLER talks with writer Edouard GLISSANT from Martinique. Edouard GLISSANT militates by his writing for a vision of a plural man, with multiple roots. He says: "Through all this misery that the West Indian peoples have suffered, there is something that has emerged...which is a new give of the relationship of oneself to the other."

Edouard Glissant: "We must inhabit planet earth in a humble and imaginative way"

Publication date 24/02/1998 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Laure ADLER talks with writer Edouard GLISSANT from Martinique. For him, we must rely on the imagination that will accustom peoples to a large community. We must inhabit the planet earth in a humble and imaginative way: "Each periphery becomes a centre in itself and for itself... From there, we can no longer think of the world with a rationality that predicts as we did in the 18th or 19th century... We must turn to the work of the imaginary, which will gradually accustom peoples...to the idea that there is a great community which is the planet earth and that this great community, we must inhabit it in a humble and imaginative way ..."

Edouard Glissant: "Rooting in the origins is not forbidden, provided that this rooting is extended..."

Publication date 24/02/1998 From €100.00

Edouard Glissant

Laure ADLER talks with writer Edouard GLISSANT from Martinique. Edouard GLISSANT militates by his writing for a vision of a plural man, with multiple roots. He says: "Rootedness in the origins is not forbidden, provided that this rootedness is extended...to a conception of a network of roots that can make you flow to another place while returning home, and that the humanities hardly accept. But we will have to come to it, and I think it is only through the imagination that we will be able to settle this, not through ideological systems or systems of thought.'

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