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

Segalen, Glissant and the Genealogies of Francophone Postcolonial Thought

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4389688
AutoresCharles Forsdick (0000-0001-7470-8421, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas160-177
Fecha de publicación2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaParagraph (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/para.2014.0119
OpenAlexW2096846132
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias 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