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

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

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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Publication date : 24 February 1998