Description: Glissant's dizzying essay explores and brings into being his idea of a new region of the world, where time is totalized and space relativized, and all things imagined at once. Hugely ambitious, relentlessly poetic, Glissant guides you into this work, this world, which he says has been little travelled, but will have to be crossed together, as one, and transcends and designates the world as it has been known.
Brief description: Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).
Review Quotes:
"The spirit and letter of the essay have been beautifully transferred into English, without betraying any of the original impetus [...] it reproduces, in interesting and sometimes surprising ways, exactly what the Francophone reader would experience faced with the original text."
Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge