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The legend of a gypsy Christ crucified twice has been circulating in the Iberian peninsula for centuries, probably since the dawn of the 16th century, when the gypsy people, after their mysterious escape from India (others would have it from Egypt, from which gipsy, gypsy) arrived in Andalusia. Like other myths and legends it entered […]

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.