Sam Coombes

Édouard Glissant (eBook, PDF)

A Poetics of Resistance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation. Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant's thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant's vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350036826
• Artikelnr.: 54814431

Autorenporträt

Sam Coombes is Senior Lecturer and member of the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: Later Glissantian Thought as Alternative Perspective on
Globalisation
Chapter 1. Poetics of Relation (1990): a Manifesto for the 21st Century?
Chapter 2. From Relation to the 'common-place': the Later Glissantian
Conceptual Schema
PART TWO: Creolisation, Anti-Universalism and Twenty-First Century Radical
Thought
Chapter 3. Creolisation and Creoleness: Proximity and Divergence
Chapter 4. The Paradoxes of Universalism and the Ambivalence of the
Postcolonial condition
Chapter 5. Glissant: Postmodernist Apologist for Neoliberal-led
Globalization?
Chapter 6. Glissant's latter-day Political Commitments
PART THREE: Envisioning the Twenty-First Century Otherwise: Utopianism,
Anarchism and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Chapter 7. Globalization and Its Critics: Neoliberalism,
Alter-Globalization and Contemporary Anarchism
Chapter 8. A Poetics of Resistance and Change: Glissant, a Maître à penser
for 21st Century Dissident Thought?
BIBLIOGRAPHY