Title: Caribbean discourse : selected essays /
Authors: Glissant, Édouard, 1928-; Dash, J. Michael
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Black people Race identity; Nationalism and literature West Indies, French History; Caribbean literature (French) History and criticism; Martinique Civilization.; Martinique Dependency on France.; West Indies, French Relations France.; France Relations West Indies, French.
Contents: Introductions -- The known, the uncertain -- The Caribbean experience -- History-histories-stories -- Cross-cultural poetics -- National literatures -- Landscapes, land -- Poetics -- An exploded discourse -- The unconscious, identity, and method -- Languages, self-expression -- Theater, consciousness of the people -- A Caribbean future -- Toward Caribbeanness -- Voices -- Overatures -- Appendix: table of the diaspora -- Glossary -- Sources of documents reprinted in this volume.