Édouard Glissant’s work, an entrance towards the “Relation” : intentions and projections
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Titre
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Édouard Glissant’s work, an entrance towards the “Relation” : intentions and projections
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INNOVA Research Journal
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Titre du volume
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11
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Volume
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1
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Date
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2016
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Langue(s)
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Anglais
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Résumé
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The proposal here is to examine how people and countries can converge in the world
history. This paper considers the specificity of this convergence in the context of Edouard
Glissant’s writings. The thought of Édouard Glissant has an important resonance with the
concept of the Relation which gets central when the identity is perceived in a universal
perspective which takes into account the opacity of the Other. Based largely on Le Discours
antillais but not limited to this text, we will analyse the opacity that Glissant has always claimed
as a way to oppose the artificial transparency of the world and as a necessary condition of a
thought of the Relation. Glissant proposes to read the world with an other apprehension of the
otherness. The objective of this study is to show that Glissant’problematic is not any more only
a thought about the Caribbean but also the thought of all those about whom we do not speak, or
about whom we do not want to speak. So, according to a critical thought, the Relation will help
to brings a cultural, ethical and critical diversity into the contemporary dynamics of populations,
history and memory.
Keywords: Edouard Glissant, The Other, Relation
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Creator
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Carole Reine Wahnoun
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Subject
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nettoyé
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pages
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129-140