El Ensayo Que Se Repite O El Caribe Como Lugar-Común (antonio Benítez Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite)

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Titre
El Ensayo Que Se Repite O El Caribe Como Lugar-Común (antonio Benítez Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite)
The repeating essay or the Caribbean as a common-place (Antonio Benítez Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite).
Titre du volume
2
Volume
18
Date
2014/12
Langue(s)
Espagnol
Issn
03293807
Résumé
As a means to counter the historical balkanization of the Antilles, the essay writing of Édouard Glissant, as well as that of Cuban Antonio Benítez Rojo and Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite, elaborates an imaginary integration of the Caribbean, promoting cultural linkages. By looking into similar concepts and metaphors displayed in their essays, we distinguish common interests ("lieuxcommuns", according to Glissant's Philosophie de la relation (2009)) as well as the voluntary affiliation of the authors with one another by means of a mutual appropriation of ideas and various intertextual relations. Although the authors belong to different linguistic regions, the translation of their works and the contacts established among them have favored the construction of a "repeating essay": a (common) Caribbean discourse. In particular, I focus on the continuities that the essays establish with the Caribbean anti-colonialist tradition and the collectivist revolutionary spirit of the 60s and 70s, beyond the "postmodern perspective" the authors may claim to assume. (English)
Creator
Florencia Bonfiglio
Subject
ANTI-imperialist movements
Antonio Benítez Rojo
BALKANIZATION (Political science)
BENITEZ Rojo, Antonio, 1931-2005
BRATHWAITE, Kamau, 1930-
Caribbean
Caribe
ESSAY (Literary form)
Edouard Glissant
GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011
Kamau Brathwaite
LINGUISTICS
POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy)
ensayo
essay
nettoyé
pages
19-31
short title
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