Glissant's Africas
From Departmentalization to the Poetics of Relation
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9250180 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Cilas Kemedjio (autor de correspondencia) |
| Traductores | R H Mitsch |
| Año | 2001 |
| Volumen | 32 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 92-116 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Editorial | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2001.32.4.92 |
| OpenAlex | W2093106376 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 5 |
Africa's disillusionment with its independences has set the continent in a series of contradictions and problems that have left in their wake bloody tyrannies, interminable civil wars, cyclical famines, or unspeakable genocides that often threaten the very survival of entire com? munities. The postcolonial ravages experienced in Haiti and the other independent countries of the Antilles and Africa are turning the tomor? rows of decolonization into a nightmare for the great majority of people. Against the socioeconomic and political disaster brought about by the suns of independences, departmentalization is presented as the path to salvation. Edouard Glissant is the first in a line of Antillean writers and thinkers to produce what can be called an Africa of departmentalization? perceiving Africa in particular and the postcolonial world in general through the impact of departmentalization in the Caribbean. The failure of the dreams of independence, with catastrophic consequences for daily life, functions in the propaganda of departmentalization as another trump against the temptation for independence. The pathology of Africa thus ensues from the exploitation of postindependence misery through hege? monic French discourse in the Antilles. The perception of an exclusive focus on the sordid nature of the African situation in Antillean discourse denotes its infeudation within the sphere of hegemony
Art · Decolonization · Hegemony · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temptation · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 0,06 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |