First published 2021
This collection presents the collaborative manifestos that Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau wrote between 2000 and 2009, including texts composed after Barack Obama's 2008 election. The authors address climate catastrophe, resource extraction, and neocolonialism across France, the Caribbean, and North America. They develop a poetic vocabulary around concepts like Relation, globality, and créolité to counter western capitalism and identity politics. Glissant and Chamoiseau advocate for métissage and creolization as responses to globalization, exploring connections between humans and nature through their concept of the tout-vivant. The manifestos challenge individualism and neoliberal societies while proposing liberation from fixed community identities. This English translation marks the inaugural volume in the Planetarities series, positioning the poet-writer as an active respondent to planetary crisis rather than passive observer.
Genres: non-fiction, 21st-century, climate-change, activism, cultural-studies
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: counter-western-capitalism, liberation-from-fixed-identities, poetic-vocabulary
Setting: Caribbean, France, North America
Period: 2000-2009
164 pages · Paperback · LA DECOUVERTE