Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: By Édouard Glissant

by Édouard Glissant

Book Overview

This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction une po tique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L'Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). It covers a wide range of topics but key recurring themes are creolization, language and langage, culture and identity, 'monolingualism', the 'Chaos-world' and the role of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178962097X
• ISBN13: 9781789620979
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"