Poetics of relation edouard glissant biography

French writer, poet, philosopher and literary critic

Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011)^[1] was a Martinican writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic.^[2] He is an influential figure in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature.^[1]

Life

Édouard Glissant was born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique.^[1] He studied at the Lycée Schœlcher, named after the abolitionistVictor Schœlcher, where the poet Aimé Césaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher.

Césaire had met Léon Damas there; later in Paris, France, they would join with Léopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of negritude. Césaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him (although Glissant sharply criticized many aspects of his philosophy); another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon.

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