Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
- ISBN-10
- 081391373X
- ISBN-13
- 9780813913735
- Category
- Black people
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Author
- Édouard Glissant
Description
Edouard Glissant's 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.
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