Edouard Glissant Quotes on Knowledge
Edouard Glissant was a Martinican philosopher, novelist, and poet, one of the founding figures of Caribbean philosophy, and the most original theorist of creolization in late-twentieth-century thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Edouard Glissant on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edouard Glissant:
“I write to you from a place where the world has always already been creolized.”
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“beginning of Mahagony (1987 novel), translated from the French into English by Betsy Wing (2001)”
Trees that live a long time exude mystery and magic. As if they were creating strong potions of happiness and calamity in their ripe old age, stirring together heaven and animal nature, and using these mixtures to control us and come to our aid. An herb's magic is perishable; a potion made from it can only work on bodies, be useful for love or for doing harm to others. But a tree, though more rese -
“beginning of Chapter 1”
All this wind," said Papa Longoué, "all this wind about to come up, nothing you can do, you wait for it to come up to your hands, then your mouth, your eyes, your head. As if a man was only there to wait for the wind, to drown, yes, you understand, to drown himself for good in all this wind like the endless ocean..." -And one can't say, he went on thinking (on his haunches in front of the child), -
“Our intention in this work was to pull together all levels of experience . This piling-up is the most suitable technique for exposing a reality that is itself being scattered. Its evolution is like a repetition of a few obsessions that take root , tied to realities that keep slipping away . The intellectual journey is destined to have a geographical itinerary, through which the "intention" within the Discourse explores its space and into which it is woven.”
beginning of Introduction: From this discourse on a discourse -
“beginning of Introduction: From this discourse on a discourse”
Our intention in this work was to pull together all levels of experience . This piling-up is the most suitable technique for exposing a reality that is itself being scattered. Its evolution is like a repetition of a few obsessions that take root , tied to realities that keep slipping away . The intellectual journey is destined to have a geographical itinerary, through which the "intention" within -
“Sameness is sublimated difference; Diversity is accepted difference. ("National Literatures")”
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“To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control (to possess it). ("Poetics")”
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