Edouard Glissant, Le Discours antillais [Carribbean Discourse: Selected Essays]

Ashwinee Pendharkar (University of Auckland)

Ed. by Maeve McCusker, Queen's University Belfast
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.2: Francophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Maeve McCusker (Queen's University Belfast), David Murphy (University of Strathclyde)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1981

Places

France (Publication/ performance)
Martinique (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Essays/ Lectures (any)

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Le Discours antillais

(

) is a collection of essays by Edouard Glissant, one of the most important writers, thinkers and theorists of the French colonial experience.

Caribbean Discourse

(

) is the English translation, by J. Michael Dash, of

Le Discours antillais

. These complex essays, selected from a body of work published over a ten-year period, are a key to many of the issues, questions and ideas that Glissant’s

oeuvre

addresses. The essays examine the experiences and realities of the French Caribbean in general, and of Martinique in particular.

History

The tiny, scattered yet sea-linked islands of the Caribbean were strategic outposts for European colonial powers. Erased of their indigenous inhabitants, these islands were repopulated by a mixture of European plantation owners,

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Citation: Pendharkar, Ashwinee. "Le Discours antillais". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 November 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=28405, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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