Edouard Glissant

Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature

by J. Michael Dash

Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and postcolonial literature. In this first full-length study of Glissant's creative and theoretical work J. Michael Dash examines his poems, novels, plays and essays in the context of modern French literary movements and the post-negritude Caribbean situation, providing both a useful introduction to, and a challenging assessment of, Glissant's work to date. Dash shows how Glissant has focused in an unprecedented way on the Caribbean in terms of the diverse and hybrid culture that has been created in the region, and how his ideas on a cross-cultural politics are the shaping force in the Francophone Caribbean "Creolite" movement.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published February 24, 1995

About the author

Educated at University of the West Indies, Michael Dash is currently a Professor of French and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His areas of research are Francophone and Caribbean Literature, as well as literary theory. He has worked closely with Edouard Glissant and has also translated some of Glissant's work from French into English.

Some of his works are published under the name Michael Dash.