Soleil de la conscience: poetique 1. English

Sun of consciousness / Édouard Glissant ; translated by Nathanaël.

New York : Nightboat Books, [2020]

³2020

89 pages ; 21 cm

"Published originally as: Soleil de la conscience: Poetique I."--Title page verso.

"Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Poétique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissant's concerns with créolisation (creolization), mondialité (worldliness, as against globalization), or opacité (opacity) and inscribes in this work a refusal of colonialism and of inverted exoticism. The sense of estrangement experienced by the author who arrives as a 'foreigner' in a country to which he is bound by 'the first page of his passport' is the author's principal preoccupation. By positioning himself as both different and same, Glissant opens a space for the writing of a(nother) history: that of the Caribbean."-- Provided by publisher.

English

August 05, 2021

Includes bibliographical references.