Sun of Consciousness

Edouard Glissant | Nathanaël

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Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher �douard Glissant�s first published work, and opened the Po�tique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissants concerns with cr�olisation (creolization), mondialit� (worldliness, as against globalization), or opacit� (opacity) and inscribes in this work a refusal of colonialism and of inverted exoticism. The sense of estrangement experienced by the author who arrives as a �foreigner� in a country to which he is bound by �the first page of his passport� is the author�s principal preoccupation. By positioning himself as both different and same, Glissant opens a space for the writing of a(nother) history: that of the Caribbean.