Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary.

Works

Books

• Le Discours Antillais, Paris: Seuil, 1981. (French)
  • Carribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, trans. & intro. J. Michael Dash, University Press of Virginia, 1989, 272 pp. (English)

• Poétique de la relation, Paris: Gallimard, 1990. (French)
  • Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing, University of Michigan Press, 1997, 226 pp. (English)

• Tout-Monde, Paris: Gallimard, 1993. Excerpt. (French)

• Poétique, IV: Traité du Tout-Monde, Paris: Gallimard, 1997. (French)

• Philosophie de la relation: poésie en étendue, Paris: Gallimard, 2009. (French)

Articles

• "Michel Leiris: The Repli and the Dépli", Yale French Studies 81 (1992), pp 21-27.

Links

• http://www.edouardglissant.fr
• Glissant at Wikipedia