Description
This sweeping work offers an ambitious, wide-ranging reading of the Caribbean and the broader New World experience—not as a single, settled story, but as a living field of voices, histories, and encounters. Drawing on Glissant’s signature concept of the “arc-en-mer” (the sea-rainbow), the book explores how cultures collide, mingle, and transform, resisting the urge to reduce complex realities into neat systems. Through essays that move across literature, history, and philosophy, it traces the forces of creolization, memory, and relation that shape identity in the wake of displacement and colonial power. Written in Glissant’s lyrical, concept-driven style, the book challenges readers to think with openness and multiplicity, making it essential for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Caribbean thought and postcolonial possibility.
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paperback
University Press of Virginia
Published Jan 1, 1989
272 pages
ISBN: 0813912199
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First Published
1989
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
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