Description
A sweeping meditation on how cultures, histories, and selves come into being, this work proposes “Relation” as an open totality—an evolving space where multiplicity does not dissolve difference but intensifies it. Drawing on Caribbean realities, the book traces how identity is never solitary: it is produced through exchange with the Other, forming a “unity-diversity” that resists flattening the world into a single narrative. Glissant also interrogates the very languages that claim to describe us, advancing the idea of “opacity” as a right to remain irreducible to the demands of dominant understanding. Written in a dense, incantatory, concept-driven style, the book challenges readers to rethink belonging, community, and the ethics of interpretation in a world defined by movement, contact, and transformation.
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paperback
University of Michigan Press
Published Jan 1, 1997
226 pages
ISBN: 047209629X
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First Published
1990
Language
fra
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