Event overview
Screening of the film "Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation" , directed by Manthia Diawara (2010).
The Unit of Play is delighted to host this screening of director Manthia Diawara's "Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation" as part of its new Pluralistic Connections theme.
In 2009, Manthia Diawara – Malian wrtier, filmmaker and cultural theorist – with his camera, followed Edouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a cross-Atlantic journey from South Hampton (UK) to Brooklyn (New York).This poetic meditation continued in Martinique, the native home of Edouard Glissant. The extraordinary voyages resulted in the production of an intellectual biography in which Glissant elaborates on his theory of Relation and the concept of “Tout-monde.”??Edouard Glissant was one of the most important contemporary thinkers. In the 1980s, his theories of creolization, diversity and otherness, as elaborated in the book "Le Discours Antillais" (1981), were considered as seminal texts for the emerging studies of multiculturalism, identity politics, minority literature and Black Atlanticsim. Influenced by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, he construed the history and geography of the Caribbean politically, demonstrating his revolt against racisms of any type and evoking the indelible mark of slavery on the relationship between France and Africa and all overseas territories.
In the 1990s and 2000, he developed a theory he called "Poétique de la relation," and "Tout-Monde," where the concept of "Relation" is perceived as an autonomous entity, moving between objects and providing them with energy, poesis and difference. In his book "Philosophie de la relation", Glissant used the concept to meditate on the new meanings of globalization, chaos, violence, equality and justice.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Feb 2017 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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