Edouard glissant
a métissage, but a new and original dimension allowing each person to be there and elsewhere, rooted and open, lost in the mountains and free beneath the sea, in harmony and errantry.ġ31- The thing recused in every generalization of an absolute, even and especially some absolute secreted within this imaginary construct of Relation: that is, the possibility for each one at every moment to be both solitary and solitary there.ġ54- the thought of the Other is sterile without the other of Thoughtġ55- The other of Thought is always set in motion by its confluences as a whole, in which each is changed by and changes the other.ġ57- Distancings are necessary to Relation and depend on it: like the coexistence of sea olive and manchineel.ġ41-142 The old idea of identity as root, whenever it proves hard to define or impossible to maintain, leads inexorably to the refuges of generalization provided by the universal as value.ġ42- Identity as a system of relation, as an aptitude for "giving-on-and-with" (donner-avec) is in contrast, a form of violence that challenges the generalizing universal and necessitates even more stringent demands for specificity.ģ4- carries along.into the adventure of multilingualism and into the incredible explosion of cultures. The tale of errantry is the tale of Relation.Ģ1- The thinking of errancy conceives of totality but willingly renounces any claims to sum it up or possess it.Ģ0- The thought of errantry is not apolitical nor is it inconsistent with the will to identity, which is, after all, nothing other than the search for a freedom within particular surroundings.ġ8- the rhizome- prompting the knowledge that identity is no longer completely within the root but also in Relation.ġ1- each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the OtherĢ0- in the poetics of Relation, one who is errant (who is no longer a traveler, discoverer or conqueror) strives to know the totality of the world yet already knows he will never accomplish this - and knows that is precisely where the threatened beauty of the world resides.ģ4- What took place in the Caribbean, which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation for us as nearly as possible.
The thought of errantry is a poetics, which always infers that at some moment it is told. 18- errantry does not proceed from renunciation nor from frustration regarding a supposedly deteriorated (deterritorialized) situation of origin it is not a resolute act of rejection or an uncontrolled impulse of abandonment.