From the 'Aesthetics of Diversity' to the 'Poetics of Relating

Segalen, Glissant and the Genealogies of Francophone Postcolonial Thought

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4389688
AutoresCharles Forsdick (0000-0001-7470-8421, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas160-177
Data de publicação2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoParagraph (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176
EditoraEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/para.2014.0119
OpenAlexW2096846132
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas2

The article explores the 'significant missed rendezvous' and posthumous critical dialogue between Victor Segalen (1878-1919) and Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). It studies the ways in which the Martinican novelist, poet and theorist identified Segalen as a catalytic presence in his thought and as one of his privileged, lifelong interlocutors. The study tracks the role of Segalen's work in the steady emergence and elaboration of Glissant's thought, but also analyses the place of Glissant's readings in the progressive reassessment of Segalen's own writings (and particularly in their recent recontextualization in a postcolonial frame). The article contributes to reflections on the formation of communities of thought in which intellectuals from different moments and different ideological niches - in this case colonial and postcolonial - are drawn into dialogue in ways that appear achronological. Segalen and Glissant are presented as part of a wider community of French-language writers, linked with 'relational' ties, whose engagements with questions of contact and cultural diversity overlap, intersect and ultimately interact

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Diversity (politics · Ideology · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy