Edouard Glissant: Places of Alienation

Edouard Glissant: Places of Alienation

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"

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File : Edouard Glissant

Publication date : 13 October 1988