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In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. One of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century, douard Glissants body of work covers multiple genres and addresses many cogent contemporary. Nevertheless, proceeding with caution one can note that the encounter with the Other is central to the emergence of Relation.
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As such, it is a perilous task to attempt to pin down his theory of Relation into a concise summary.
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Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. Glissant’s understanding of creolization as a particular kind of historical event in his. Glissant’s argument is subtley woven, careful at every step to avoid generalization. Édouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relatio n (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers.