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edouard 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.>
List of contents
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?
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About the author
Sam Coombes is Senior Lecturer and member of the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
