Poetics of relation

摘要: In Poetics of Relation, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Edouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision world in transformation. He sees islands Antilles as enduring an "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also place whose unique interactions will one day produce emerging global consensus. Arguing that alone can tap unconscious people apprehend its multiform culture order to provide forms memory intent capable transcending "nonhistory, " therefore defines his "poetics relation" - both aesthetic political transformative mode enunciating making with self-defined past future. we come see relation all senses telling, listening, connecting, parallel consciousness self surroundings is key transforming mentalities reshaping societies. The issues raised about identity built not isolation are central current discussions only creolization but U.S. multiculturalism well.