Edouard Glissant
By: J. Michael Dash.
Series: Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Glissant, Edouard, 1928-  -- Criticism and interpretation; West Indies, French -- In literature; Caribbean Area -- In literature
Description: In this first full-length study of Glissant's creative and theoretical work J. Michael Dash examines his poems, novels, plays and essays in the context of modern French literary movements and the post-negritude Caribbean situation, providing both a useful introduction to, and a challenging assessment of, Glissant's work to date.

Dash shows how Glissant has focused in an unprecedented way on the Caribbean in terms of the diverse and hybrid culture that has been created in the region, and how his ideas on a cross-cultural poetics are the shaping force in the francophone Caribbean 'Creolite' movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.