Edouard Glissant
Poet, philosopher and writer, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) introduced the notion of antillanité as a way of reconsidering the world as archipelago. A Martinican thinker of the creolization of cultures and the poetics of relation, his multi-faceted oeuvre moves between the essay ( Faulkner, Mississippi ), poetry ( The Indies ), fiction ( The Fourth Century ) and theatre ( Monsieur Toussaint ). In 1958, he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for The Ripening . Édouard Glissant taught in the United...See more
Poet, philosopher and writer, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) introduced the notion of antillanité as a way of reconsidering the world as archipelago. A Martinican thinker of the creolization of cultures and the poetics of relation, his multi-faceted oeuvre moves between the essay ( Faulkner, Mississippi ), poetry ( The Indies ), fiction ( The Fourth Century ) and theatre ( Monsieur Toussaint ). In 1958, he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for The Ripening . Édouard Glissant taught in the United States at Louisiana State University and at the City University in New York. In 2006, he founded the Institut du Tout-Monde in Paris. See less