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Perifrasis. Rev. Lit. Teor. Crit. | eISSN 2145-9045 | ISSN 2145-8987

NOTES ABOUT THE CARIBBEAN IN ÉDOUARD GLISSANT AND EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE´S POETICS OF CREOLIZATION

No. 8 (2013-07-01)
  • Claudia Caisso

Abstract

This work focuses on some interculturalities’ phenomenons in Caribbean Discourse by édouard Glissant (1981) and in the conversation between the martiniquais poet and Edward Kamau Brathwaite in “Nation language and poetics of creolization” (1991). It also analizes some records within Caribbean cultures process slavery memory and the relation between literacies cultures and popular cultures in their confrontation with eurocentric rationality.

Keywords: Caribbean, interculturality, creolization, memories, racism