Title: Sun of consciousness /
Authors: Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011; Nathanaël, 1970-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Caribbean literature (French) History and criticism; Nationalism and literature West Indies, French History; Black people Race identity; Blacks Race identity; Caribbean literature (French); Civilization; International relations; Nationalism and literature; Martinique Civilization.; West Indies, French Relations France.; France Relations West Indies, French.; France; Lesser Antilles West Indies, French; Martinique
Abstract: "Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Poétique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissant's concerns with créolisation (creolization), mondialité (worldliness, as against globalization), or opacité (opacity) and inscribes in this work a refusal of colonialism and of inverted exoticism. The sense of estrangement experienced by the author who arrives as a 'foreigner' in a country to which he is bound by 'the first page of his passport' is the author's principal preoccupation. By positioning himself as both different and same, Glissant opens a space for the writing of a(nother) history: that of the Caribbean."--
Contents: From the gaze to language -- The course of the poem -- The two pages of the voyage -- The experience revealed -- Sun of consciousness -- Cities, poems -- At last the muds have knotted the soul -- A note on the translation.