Edouard Glissant

Klappentext First full-length study of influential novelist! poet and theorist of Caribbean and post-colonial literature. Zusammenfassung The novelist and poet Edouard Glissant has recently also emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature. In this first full-length study of his work J. Michael Dash examines Glissant's poems! novels! plays and essays in the context of the diverse nature of Caribbean cultural politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Contexts; 2. The poetic intention: Un champ d'îles, La terre inquiète, Les Indes, Soleil de la conscience; 3. Novels of time and space: La lézarde, Le quatrième siècle; 4. Writing the 'real country': L'intention poétique, Malemort, Boises, Monsieur Toussaint; 5. Towards a theory of Antillanité: La case du commandeur, Le discours antillais; 6. A poetics of chaos: Pays rêvé, pays réel, Mahagony, Poétique de la relation.

Product details

• Authors: J. Michael Dash, J. Michael (University of the West Indies) Dash, Jean M. Dash, Michael Dash
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.1995
• EAN: 9780521475501
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47550-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Studies in African &
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies