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What is Trauma to the Future? On Glissant's Poetics
- Author(s):
- John E. Drabinski (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Subject(s):
- Caribbean Area, Area studies, French-speaking countries, Memory--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Édouard Glissant, Colonial Trauma, Caribbean studies, Francophone studies, Memory studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/n5rm-4328
- Abstract:
- This essay offers a reading of Glissant's work on memory and history, arguing that traumatic experience is central to that work and consequent conceptions of identity. I explore the function of traumatic memory in relation to Glissant's notions of the past and also futurity, both of which work with a sense of the painful past that simultaneously bequeaths melancholy and fecundity. This mixture grounds Glissant's thought in the specificity of the Caribbean.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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