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MANIFESTOS - EDOUARD GLISSANT PATRICK CHAMOISEA...

The collected manifestos of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau: for a postcolonial
response to planetary crisis. Manifestos brings together for the first time in English the
manifestos written by Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau between 2000 and 2009. Composed
in part in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election in 2008  the texts resonate with the
current context of divided identities and criticisms of multiculturalism. The individual texts
grapple with concrete historical and political moments in France  the Caribbean  and North
America. Across the manifestos  as well as two collectively signed op-eds  the authors engage
with socio-political aspects of climate catastrophe  resource extraction  toxicity  and
neocolonialism. Throughout the collection  Glissant and Chamoiseau engage with key themes
articulated through their poetic vocabulary  including Relation  globalization  globality
(mondialité)  anti-universalism  métissage  the tout-monde (whole-world”) and the tout-vivant
(all-living ” including the relationship of humans to each other and nature”)  créolité and the
creolization of the world  and the liberation from community assignations in response to
individualism and neoliberal societies. Translated as the first volume in the Planetarities
series with Goldsmiths Press  the themes of Manifestos resonate with the planetary as they work
in response to contemporary forms of (economic) globalization  western capitalism  identity
politics  and urban  digital and cosmic ecosystems  as well as the role of the poet-writer. A
distinguishing feature of this publication is its interventional aspect  which prioritizes
engaged scholarship and practice while demonstrating the relevance of the poetic in response to
the urgencies of planetary crisis.

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