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Édouard Glissant, 1958.
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Édouard Glissant

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Born:
September 21, 1928, Le Lamentin, Martinique
Died:
February 3, 2011, Paris, France (aged 82)
Movement / Style:
Negritude
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Édouard Glissant (born September 21, 1928, Le Lamentin, Martinique—died February 3, 2011, Paris, France) was a French-speaking West Indian poet and novelist who belonged to the literary Africanism movement. Glissant was a disciple and fellow countryman of the poet Aimé Césaire, who founded the Negritude movement to promote an African culture free of all colonial influences. Glissant recorded the awakening of colonized peoples in his verse collection Un Champ d’îles (1953; “An Expanse of Islands”) and in his epic poem Les Indes (1956; The Indies in bilingual edition). His novel La Lézarde (1958; “The Crack”; Eng. trans. The Ripening) won ...(100 of 234 words)

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