The afterwor(l)ds of Édouard Glissant
A decade after Édouard Glissant’s passing, how have his self-proclaimed intellectual heirs and scholars of his work placed this work in the contemporary Western, francophone, Caribbean, or global theoretical landscape?
Oana Panaïté
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Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory
A double‐barrelled question underpins this special edition: can International Relations (IR) be decolonised? If so, how? I argue that IR's insistence on more‐or‐less concretised subjects, which engage in dialectical relations of struggle, renders the discipline (and the practice it engenders) constitutionally blind to the origins of colonial violence ...
Keagan Ó Guaire
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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Traversées francophones : littérature engagée, quête de l’oralité et création romanesque [PDF]
La littérature francophone d’Afrique et des Antilles émerge dans un projet de contestation de la situation de domination qui a créé ses conditions de possibilités.
Kemedjio, Cilas
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In a conversation with Manthia Diawara aboard the Queen Mary II in 2009, Édouard Glissant elaborated his definition of Relation, a concept that he formally presented in his book Poétique de la relation in 1990, but that emerged out of years of writing ...
Angela H. Brown
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Becoming-Bertha: virtual difference and repetition in postcolonial 'writing back', a Deleuzian reading of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea [PDF]
Critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea have seized upon Rhys’s novel as an exemplary model of writing back. Looking beyond the actual repetitions which recall Brontë’s text, I explore Rhys’s novel as an expression of virtual difference and becomings ...
Alcocer Rudyard +31 more
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Édouard Glissant’s work, an entrance towards the “Relation”: intentions and projections
La propuesta es aquí de examinar como gente y países pueden convergir en la historia mundial. Este artículo considera la especificidad de esta convergencia en el contexto de los escritos de Edouard Glissant.
Carole Reine Wahnoun
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Hipótese sobre a noção de prefácio em Édouard Glissant
Este texto visa a estabelecer linhas iniciais a uma apropriação da premissa do Caribe como prefácio às Américas, conforme o ensaio Introduction à une poétique du Divers, de Édouard Glissant, compreendendo-o em um quadro de pensamento negro americano.
Alcione Correa Alves
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Aimé Césaire and The Divine Comedy: Self-enlightenment and the dialectic of relation in And the Dogs Were Silent [PDF]
This article offers a close reading of the lyrical drama And the Dogs Were Silent, and Aimé Césaire’s unique deployment of a Dantean imaginary. It argues, specifically, that Dante’s “symbolic process” in the Commedia provides a metaphorical structure for
Allen, J
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Reseña: Ex(tra)territorial. Reassessing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages / Les Territoires littéraires, culturels et linguistiques en question [PDF]
Ressenya de Didier Lassalle i Dirk Weissmann (eds.): Ex(tra)territorial. Reassessing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages. Les Territoires littéraires, culturels et linguistiques en questionReview of Didier Lassalle and Dirk Weissmann (eds ...
Gonzalez Roux, Maya
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