Sun of Consciousness

• Author(s): Édouard Glissant,
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Pages: 89
• ISBN_10: 1937658953
  ISBN_13: 9781937658953
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / African Languages , Foreign Language Study / French , Foreign Language Study / Creole Languages , Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Philosophy / Political , Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction , Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory , Philosophy / Individual Philosophers , Poetry / General ,

Description:... Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Poétique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissants concerns with créolisation (creolization), mondialité (worldliness, as against globalization), or opacité (opacity) and inscribes in this work a refusal of colonialism and of inverted exoticism. The sense of estrangement experienced by the author who arrives as a "foreigner" in a country to which he is bound by "the first page of his passport" is the author's principal preoccupation. By positioning himself as both different and same, Glissant opens a space for the writing of a(nother) history: that of the Caribbean.