Stages of coloniality
The theatrical trilogy Le Monde incréé offers a condensed vision of Édouard Glissant’s conception of the post-Columbian world. The latter, shaped through the tremendous violence of exterminations, slavery, and colonial expansion, is marked by a coloniality in three stages: conquest, subjugation, abo...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool University Press
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Francosphères |
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| Online Access: | http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/franc.2022.3 |
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| Summary: | The theatrical trilogy Le Monde incréé offers a condensed vision of Édouard Glissant’s conception of the post-Columbian world. The latter, shaped through the tremendous violence of exterminations, slavery, and colonial expansion, is marked by a coloniality in three stages: conquest, subjugation, abolition. Taking a deliberate distance from historical methods of apprehending human time, Glissant’s trilogy (much like most of his work) builds on a ‘prophetic vision of the past’ to explore the lived experience of this coloniality, as well as the ways in which, despite the latter’s staying power, a creolized world emerges from seemingly insurmountable abyssal origins. |
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| ISSN: | 2046-3820 2046-3839 |