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The novel interwines the stories of three characters (Gani, Maho, Mani) that make the act ofmarronnage in last two centuries’ Martinique. The marronnage is the gateway in the woods inorder to escape from the plantation’s slavery system. The multiplicity of narrativefocalizations and the multilingualism between French and creole, structure a “choraldiscourse” that rewrites Martinique’s history […]

In Ormerod, his last novel, Glissant rewrites Martinique’s history from colonization to contemporary, intertwining it with nowadays world process of creolization. Slavery, rebellions, plantations, become “global” events which concentrate and irradiate themselves in different spaces, times and moments. History’s rewriting also passes through the rewriting of the utopia genre as a chaotic accumulation of elements.

In Sartorius (his seventh novel) Glissant invents a people, the Batoutos. They are from animaginary archipelago in the hearth of the African continent, which is “invisible as nation”.They have departed a long time ago from their territory in order to discover the world, in theresearch of Éléné!, an utopia which resume the spaces and times […]

In Tout-monde Glissant stages contemporary world’s creolization: the clash, the encounter, the hybridization between different languages and cultures. The stories of different characters (including the alter ego Mathieu Béluse and the same Glissant) characterized by wandering and migration, encounter themselves in spatial, stylistic and thematic common places. The déparleur (a new type of author which […]