Poetics of Relation

<''We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.''

In Poetics of Relation, his most celebrated philosophical work, Edouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. We come to see that relation in all its senses - telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings - is the key to revolutionising mentalities and reshaping societies. We are not rooted, but ever-changing; we have a right to opacity and to difference, wherever we are. Told in scintillating prose, this unique exploration of language, slavery, and poetic freedom narrates an Antillean identity, but also that of the whole world.<>

Product details

• Authors: Edouard Glissant, Édouard Glissant
• Assisted by: Wing Betsy (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241733110
• ISBN: 978-0-241-73311-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Philosophy of Language, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, PHILOSOPHY / Language, POETRY / European / French, Caribbean islands, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, philosophy books