Édouard Glissant a poetics of resistance / Sam Coombes.

Author/creator Coombes, Sam, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Descriptionxiii, 199 pages ; 23 cm
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Subjects
Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Criticism and interpretation.
Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Philosophy.
Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Political and social views.
Postcolonialism.
Globalization.

Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Later Glissantian thought as alternative perspective on globalization -- 1. Poetics of Relation (1990): a manifesto for the twenty-first century? -- 2. From Relation to the `common-place': the later Glissantian conceptual schema -- pt. TWO Creolization, anti-universalism and twenty-first-century radical thought -- 3. Creolization and creoleness: proximity and divergence -- 4. The paradoxes of universalism and the ambivalence of the postcolonial condition -- 5. Glissant: postmodernist apologist for neoliberal-led globalization? -- 6. Glissant's latter-day political commitments -- pt. THREE Envisioning the twenty-first century otherwise: utopianism, anarchism and the critique of neoliberalism -- 7. Globalization and its critics: neoliberalism, alter-globalization and contemporary anarchism -- 8. A poetics of resistance and change: Glissant, a maitre a penser for twenty-first-century dissident thought?.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018287355
ISBN9781350036833 (hardcover)
ISBN1350036838 (hardcover)
ISBN9781350036840 (softcover)
ISBN1350036846 (softcover)

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