Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean examine the psychological sociological and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.. Edouard Glissants Caribbean Discourse is an unflaggingly ambitious attempt to read the Caribbean and the New World experience not as a response to fixed univocal meaning imposed by the past but as an infinitely varied dauntingly inexhaustible text.