Edouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant was a French writer, poet, philosopher and literary critic from Martinique, who lived from 1928 to 2011. His Poetics of Relation has been used by scholars to understand a rapidly changing multicultural world. He also wrote the novels Malemort, Monsieur Toussaint, The Fourth Century and The Ripening, along with the essays in Caribbean Discourse and the history Faulkner, Mississippi.