Description: Centering on French colonialism and decolonialization, this book explores how Édouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant presents a model for exploring the ideas of Derrida and Memmi in relation to each other.
Brief description: Grant Farred is the editor of Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, USA.
Review Quotes:
"This is a stunning bit of work, exploring and creating unexpected connections between Memmi, Glissant, and Derrida. An act of collaborative and imaginative reading, Triangulating moves across Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in search of modes of thinking that exceed geography. Exceed, yes, and yet they are made possible by the fabulatory conceptual work of critical reading anchored in those geographies. A book of immense significance, Triangulating shifts our theoretical vocabulary in important, challenging ways." --John E. Drabinski, Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland
"What does it mean to think in relation, with the affordances of partial opacity or unconcealment? How might Édouard Glissant's distinction between the transplant and the transfer provoke new ways of reading Albert Memmi and Jacques Derrida on the possibility of habitation in a colonial frame? These are some questions that bring Grant Farred, Sophia Jahadhmy, and Alex van Biema together in an experiment in collaborative thinking. Triangulating offers new ways of practicing critique when the question of 'habitation' itself is so grotesquely unsettled. This is collaborative thinking as sumud, as respite and demand." --Sharad Chari, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley