{"title":"Édouard Glissant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÉdouard Glissant\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of identity, culture, and the interconnectedness of humanity through his compelling works of poetry and critical thought. Readers can immerse themselves in his rich reflections on the Caribbean experience and global relations, articulated with a unique poetic voice and philosophical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis books, including \u003cem\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant\u003c\/em\u003e, invite contemplation on the fluidity of culture and the vibrant exchanges that shape societies. This collection is essential for those interested in the intersections of arts and culture through a transformative literary lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poetics-of-relation-by-edouard-glissant-9780241733110","title":"Poetics of Relation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÉdouard Glissant's most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work sets out a new poetic vision for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/em\u003e, his most celebrated philosophical work, Édouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. We come to see that relation in all its senses—telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings—is the key to revolutionising mentalities and reshaping societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are not rooted, but ever-changing; we have a right to opacity and to difference, wherever we are. Told in scintillating prose, this unique exploration of language, slavery, and poetic freedom narrates an Antillean identity, but also that of the whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558986334444,"sku":"9780241733110","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241733110-poetics-of-relation.jpg?v=1776925347"},{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-edouard-glissant-by-edouard-glissant-9780816641956","title":"The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects and translates—most for the first time—the nine volumes of poetry published by Édouard Glissant, a poet, novelist, and critic increasingly recognised as one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The poems bring to life what Glissant calls \"an archipelago-like reality,\" partaking of the exchanges between Europe and its former colonies, between humans and their geographies, and between the poet and the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReciting and re-creating histories of the African diaspora, Columbus's \"discovery\" of the New World, the slave trade, and the West Indies, Glissant underscores the role of poetic language in changing both past and present irrevocably. As translator Jeff Humphries writes in his introduction, Glissant's poetry embraces the aesthetic creed of the French symbolists Mallarmé and Rimbaud (\"The poet must make himself into a seer\") and aims at nothing less than a hallucinatory experience of imagination in which the differences among poem, reader, and subject dissolve into one immediate present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Martinique in 1928, influenced by the controversial Martinican poet\/politician Aimé Césaire, and educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, Édouard Glissant has emerged as one of the most influential postcolonial theorists, novelists, playwrights, and poets not only in the Caribbean but also in contemporary French letters. He has twice been a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the recipient of both the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Charles Veillon in France. His works include \u003cem\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCaribbean Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFaulkner Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e, and the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Ripening\u003c\/em\u003e. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of French at City University of New York, Graduate Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599308079340,"sku":"9780816641956","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780816641956-the-collected-poems-of-douard-glissant.jpg?v=1777975044"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/edouard-glissant.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}