Michael Dash, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University, USA, This is a welcome introduction to the ideas of a major contemporary political theorist.” – J. Far from being a sign of political naïveté, the utopian nature of Glissant's political thought is shown to be a necessary prelude to a new progressive, liberatory politics. “Arguing that the tension between minoritarian and hegemonic cultures is at the heart of Edouard Glissant's entire theoretical enterprise, Coombes offers us a spirited and informed refutation of charges of political quietism in Glissant's later works. A Poetics of Resistance and Change: Glissant, a Maître à penser for 21st Century Dissident Thought? Globalization and Its Critics: Neoliberalism, Alter-Globalization and Contemporary AnarchismĬhapter 8. PART THREE: Envisioning the Twenty-First Century Otherwise: Utopianism, Anarchism and the Critique of NeoliberalismĬhapter 7. Glissant's latter-day Political Commitments Glissant: Postmodernist Apologist for Neoliberal-led Globalization?Ĭhapter 6. The Paradoxes of Universalism and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial conditionĬhapter 5. Creolisation and Creoleness: Proximity and DivergenceĬhapter 4. PART TWO: Creolisation, Anti-Universalism and Twenty-First Century Radical ThoughtĬhapter 3. From Relation to the 'common-place': the Later Glissantian Conceptual Schema Poetics of Relation (1990): a Manifesto for the 21st Century?Ĭhapter 2. PART ONE: Later Glissantian Thought as Alternative Perspective on GlobalisationĬhapter 1. Sam Coombes is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, UK. Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant's thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant's vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Sam Coombes, Edouard Glissant A Poetics of Resistance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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