Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant ( born September 21, 1928 in Bezaudin, Martinique, † February 3, 2011 in Paris) was a French writer, poet and philosopher. He is regarded as a major author of the French-speaking Caribbean and one of the intellectual thinkers on issues of postcolonial identity and cultural theory.

  • 4.1 essays
  • 4.2 poems
  • 4.3 prose

Biography

Glissant was born in a village in the north east of Martinique, the son of a plantation manager. He spent his childhood mostly in Lamentin. In the capital, Fort-de -France, he attended the Lycée Schoelcher. With a scholarship from the French government in 1946 he came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne and at the Musée de l' Homme philosophy, anthropology and literature. The early 1950s, first published in Poems of Édouard Glissant in the anthology de la Poésie Nouvelle. As spokesman of the First Congress Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956 and the second in 1959 in Rome Glissant was at the center of intellectual discussions of these years. Glissant wrote for the journal Présence africaine and was added to the editorial board of the journal Les Lettres nouvelles. In 1958 he received the Prix Renaudot for his first novel, La Lézarde ( Eng.: The flash flood ). Soon he joined the artistic and literary circles and engaged in anti-colonial movements. He has published poetry, novels, essays and plays. 1965 Glissant returned back to his home and founded the Institut d' Études Martiniquaises as a cultural and research center. From 1980 to 1988 Glissant worked as chief editor of the UNESCO Courier. From 1995 to 2007 he was professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lived alternately in Martinique and in Paris; there he died on February 3, 2011.

Glissant terms

The majority of the population of the densely populated Caribbean consists of descendants of slaves from Africa. As a poet and novelist Glissant researched new to the roots and traces of these slaves, busy old myths and legends. As a cultural politicians Glissant has mainly concerned with cultural identity outside of the European context. His influence on the literature of the "Third World" also based on the fact that he has established with Fragmented worlds an aesthetic of cultural diversity.

" Édouard Glissant developed his ideas from the countryside to keep this in mind, perhaps it easier to understand. Martinique is the microcosm, in which he initially developed his theory of the relationship still under the influence of colonial rule. Model was the relationship between the Lord and the slaves who were inseparable in the system of slavery, which continued also acted later between colonizer and the colonized. " Beate Thill, Glissant terms and their definitions in French and German, culture and identity, publishing The Wunderhorn, 2005.

In the early 1960s, Glissant founded the movement " Antillität " (French Antillanité ) for a cultural and political unity of the Caribbean. Under the impression of bloody strikes in Martinique the now well-known writer called together with Paul Niger, the front - Antillo Guyanais with the goal of political independence of the Caribbean départements in life. This was later banned by the French Government De Gaulle and banished Glissant as their initiator for several years from Martinique and Guadeloupe.

The formulation of the concepts of " creolization " (French créolisation ) and " All- World " (Fr. Tout- Monde ) make this author a Antillean thinkers of today Multikulturalismusdebatte. From the analysis of creolization wins Glissant a social model of universal value. " If you take an African rhythms and Western instruments, saxophone, violin, piano, trombone, then you have to jazz. I call creolization. I am sure that Asians and Hispanics, whites and blacks in the cities of California once something new produce that will be just as wonderful as the Jazz. " " No culture is now isolated from the others. There are no pure cultures, that would be ridiculous. The trace of life is not defined by the identical, but by Various. The same produces nothing. It starts with genetics. Two identical cells can not produce anything new. And in the culture that is the case. " Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2007.

What Glissant calls the " poetics of relation" ( Poétique de la relation), is a human identity that defines itself on the diversity of relationships and not on ethnic, ancestry.

It is interesting in this context, his distinction between "globalization" (French mondialisation ) and " globality " (French mondialité ): "What is called globalization is the approximation at the lowest level, the dominance of multinational corporations, the standardization and the unregulated liberalism on the world markets. But for me it is only the reverse side of a wonderful reality is that I call globality. " Martin Zähringerplatz, literature news, 2010.

Works in French

Essays

  • Soleil de la conscience. ( Poétique I) ( 1956) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard,
  • Le Discours antillais. (1981), Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • Poétique de la relation. ( Poétique III) Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
  • Discours de Glendon. Suivi d'une bibliography of Edouard Glissant Écrits d' establish itself par Alain Baudot. Toronto, Ed. du GREF, 1990.
  • Introduction à une poétique you divers. ( 1995), Paris, Gallimard, 1996.
  • Faulkner, Mississippi. Paris, Stock, 1996; Paris, Gallimard (folio ), 1998.
  • Traité du Tout- Monde. ( Poétique IV) Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • La Cohee you Lamentin. ( Poétique V) Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
  • Une nouvelle région du monde. ( Esthetique I) Paris, Gallimard, 2006.
  • Mémoires of esclavages (avec un avant - propos de Dominique de Villepin). Paris, Gallimard, 2007.
  • Quand les murs tombent. L' identité national hors- la- loi? (avec Patrick Chamoiseau ) Paris, Galaade, 2007.
  • La terre magnétique: les Errances de Rapa Nui, l' île de Pâques (avec Sylvie Sema ). Paris, Seuil, 2007.
  • Les entretiens de baton rouge, avec Alexandre Leupin, Gallimard, Paris, 2008.
  • Manifeste pour les « produits » de haute nécessité, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Réunion sign ataires, Ernest Breleur, Patrick Chamoiseau, Serge Domi, Gerard Delver, Édouard Glissant, Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, Olivier Portecop, Olivier Pulvar, Jean -Claude William. Éditions Galaade, en coédition avec l' Institut du Tout- Monde, Paris, 2009.
  • L' intraitable beauté du monde. Adresse à Barack Obama ( avec Patrick Chamoiseau ). Paris, Galaade, 2009.
  • Philosophie de la relation, Grammar en étendue, Paris, Gallimard, 2009.
  • May 10 Mémoires de la Traite négrière, de l' et de leurs esclavage abolitions Éditions Galaade, Paris, 2010.

Poetry

  • La Terre inquiete. Lithographies de Wilfredo Lam. Paris, Éditions du Dragon, 1955.
  • Le Sel noir. Paris, Seuil, 1960.
  • Les Indes, Un champ d' îles, La Terre inquiete. Paris, Seuil, 1965.
  • L' Intention poétique. ( 1969) ( Poétique II) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • Boises; histoire naturelle d'une aridité. Fort-de -France, Acoma, 1979.
  • Le Sel noir; Le Sang rivé; Boises. Paris, Gallimard Poésie, 1983.
  • Pays rêvé, pays réel. Paris, Seuil, 1985.
  • Fastes. Toronto, Ed. du GREF, 1991.
  • Poèmes complets. (Le Sang rivé; Un champ d' îles, La Terre inquiete; Les Indes, Le Sel noir; Boises; Pays rêvé, pays réel; Fastes; Les Grands chaos ). Paris, Gallimard, 1994.
  • Le Monde incréé: Conte de ce que fut la Tragédie d' Askia; Parabole d'un Moulin de Martinique; La FoliCélat. , Paris, Gallimard, 2000.
  • La Terre et l'eau le feu les vents: une anthology de la poésie du Tout- monde, Paris, Galaade, 2010.

Prose

  • La Lézarde (1958 ) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1997; Port-au -Prince, Haiti Presses National d', 2007.
  • Le Siècle Quatrième. (1964), Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • Male Mort. (1975). Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • La Case du commandeur. (1981 ) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • Mahagony. (1987 ) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
  • Tout- Monde. Paris, Gallimard, 1995.
  • Sartorius: le roman of Batoutos. Paris, Gallimard, 1999.
  • Ormerod. Paris, Gallimard, 2003.

Theater

  • Monsieur Toussaint. (1961 ) Nouvelle édition, Paris, Gallimard, 1998.

Works in German translation

Essays

  • The magnetic land, The odyssey of Easter Island Rapa Nui. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-342-9
  • Culture and identity. Approaches to a poetics of plurality. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-88423-242-8
  • Treatise on the world. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-88423-154-5
  • Faulkner Mississippi. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-88423-124-3
  • Fragmented Worlds, The discourse of the West Indies. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 1986, ISBN 3-88423-041-7

Poetry

  • Black salt. Translated from the French and with an afterword by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-88423-193-6
  • Poems ( The eyes, the voice, Carthage, country) "in: ad libitum collection distraction No. 8; from the French by Klaus Laabs, Berlin ( GDR ): .. Verlag Volk und Welt, 1988, 324-332, ISBN 3-353 -00375-4

Prose

  • The discoverers of the night. From the French by Beate Thill. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 1991, ISBN 3-88423-070-0
  • Mahagony. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 1989, ISBN 3-88423-057-3
  • The cabin of the overseer. From the French by Beate Thill, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-88423-030-1
  • Torrent [ La Lézarde ], novel from the French by Paul Baudisch, Munich: Kindler, 1959, 1979, ISBN 3-463-00153-5

Secondary literature

  • Torsten König: Glissant " pensée archipélique ". Between metaphor and poetic principle. in: Gesine Müller, Susanne Stemmler Ed.: space, movement, passage. Postcolonial Francophone literatures. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2009, pp. 113-130, ISSN 1861-3934 ISBN 9783823365150
  • Helke Kuhn: rhizomes, branches, fractals: networked writing and composing in the work of Édouard Glissant, Berlin: Weidler, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89693-728-5

Swell

  • Werner Bloch: ' The archipelische thinking ', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung October 22, 2007.
  • Andreas Dorschel: ' Non - System and All- World ", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 278 (December 2, 2005), p 18
  • Beate Thill: Glissant terms and their definitions in French and German, in: Édouard Glissant, culture and identity, Heidelberg: Verlag Das Wunderhorn 2005.
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