Background
Glissant, Edouard Mathieu was born on September 21, 1928 in Ste. Marie, Martinique, in the family of Edouard and Adrienne (Godard) Glissant. He came to the United States in 1988.
(Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of E...)
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.
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1999
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Glissant, Edouard Mathieu was born on September 21, 1928 in Ste. Marie, Martinique, in the family of Edouard and Adrienne (Godard) Glissant. He came to the United States in 1988.
Edouard's studied at the Lycée Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aimé Césaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher.
Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his Ph.D., having studied ethnography at the Musée de l'Homme and History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne.
Edouard established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'études, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. Glissant divided his time between Martinique, Paris and New York; since 1995, he was Distinguished Professor of French at the CUNY Graduate Center. In January 2006, Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade.
(Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of E...)
1999Glissant rejects the common assumption that a Martinican identity must be based on either white supremacist values or on negritude. Glissant stresses that Martinicans can distinguish themselves by recognizing the “prophetic vision of the past” in terms of their present situation.
Edouard has five children: Pascal, Jerome, Olivier, Barbara, Mathieu.