Glissant

"Modernist literature of the Americas--or at least of the 'other America' that, according to Glissant, is founded on a traumatic encounter with a suddenly imposed rather than evolved modernity--has as one of its defining features an anxiety about cultural origins and traditions that are in the process of becoming ever more occulted under conditions of modernity." p.

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Also making my way through Anjali Prabhu's "Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory": "In Glissant the question of who I am is insignificant when compared to the question of who we are Caribbean Discourse 86." p.

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Theirs was not the Sol Glissant swimming-pool blue of Suzy's eyes, however, but a sapphire blue, almost an anthracite blue, as if hardened into being by millions of pounds of chthonian thrust.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

So few contributions had been deposited in their account (widows in Chicago and Madrid each sent them a hundred dollars, Sol Glissant appeared to have forgotten them altogether) that Domino instructed the driver to reduce their usual petrol order by half next trip and to deliver no toothpaste or cooking oil at all.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

So few contributions had been deposited in their account (widows in Chicago and Madrid each sent them a hundred dollars, Sol Glissant appeared to have forgotten them altogether) that Domino instructed the driver to reduce their usual petrol order by half next trip and to deliver no toothpaste or cooking oil at all.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

By March, the Vatican had apparently given up on trying to pressure Syria to deport the Pachomians: thanks to Sol Glissant, they held clear legal title to their land.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

By March, the Vatican had apparently given up on trying to pressure Syria to deport the Pachomians: thanks to Sol Glissant, they held clear legal title to their land.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Theirs was not the Sol Glissant swimming-pool blue of Suzy's eyes, however, but a sapphire blue, almost an anthracite blue, as if hardened into being by millions of pounds of chthonian thrust.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

For reasons of his own, Glissant had put The Banality of Evil at the disposal of Audubon Poe, who behaved as if it were his, which for all practical purposes it was.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

For reasons of his own, Glissant had put The Banality of Evil at the disposal of Audubon Poe, who behaved as if it were his, which for all practical purposes it was.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000