Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »

Based on two unpublished documents in the BnF’s Édouard Glissant collection (a draft review of the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Rome 1959; and a draft review of L.S. Senghor’s Liberté I, Seuil, 1964), this article shows the subterranean “Relation” between Édouard Glissant’s thoug...

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Main Author: Serge Bourjea
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Language:English
Published: Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12963
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description Based on two unpublished documents in the BnF’s Édouard Glissant collection (a draft review of the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Rome 1959; and a draft review of L.S. Senghor’s Liberté I, Seuil, 1964), this article shows the subterranean “Relation” between Édouard Glissant’s thought and Senghor’s ideology of “the African way to the Universal”. Between the two poets, of fundamentally different generation and origin, between two works that are opposed in form as well as in intent, there is no real dialogue, not even a dialectical (historical) relationship. And yet, at the end of the life of Senghor “l’Africain”, when UNESCO published the collective Présence Senghor – 90 écrits en hommage aux 90 ans du poète-président in 1997, Glissant “l’Antillais” did indeed pay tribute to him. His text shows that a “Relation” (in the sense in which Glissant understands this term) has been established and remains effective between two poetics –in recognition and respect of their differences as well as their oppositions– which today enables us to think differently the questions of “Négritude” “Diaspora” or “Civilization of the Universal”.
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spelling doaj-art-22b646b10d884091ba3cc1a2cf2ba3cd2024-12-09T13:56:43ZengInstitut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM)Continents manuscrits2275-17422024-10-012310.4000/12ju0Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »Serge BourjeaBased on two unpublished documents in the BnF’s Édouard Glissant collection (a draft review of the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Rome 1959; and a draft review of L.S. Senghor’s Liberté I, Seuil, 1964), this article shows the subterranean “Relation” between Édouard Glissant’s thought and Senghor’s ideology of “the African way to the Universal”. Between the two poets, of fundamentally different generation and origin, between two works that are opposed in form as well as in intent, there is no real dialogue, not even a dialectical (historical) relationship. And yet, at the end of the life of Senghor “l’Africain”, when UNESCO published the collective Présence Senghor – 90 écrits en hommage aux 90 ans du poète-président in 1997, Glissant “l’Antillais” did indeed pay tribute to him. His text shows that a “Relation” (in the sense in which Glissant understands this term) has been established and remains effective between two poetics –in recognition and respect of their differences as well as their oppositions– which today enables us to think differently the questions of “Négritude” “Diaspora” or “Civilization of the Universal”.https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12963Senghor (Léopold Sédar)Glissant (Édouard)Civilisation de l’UniverselTout-mondeNégrituder(R)elation
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Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
Continents manuscrits
Senghor (Léopold Sédar)
Glissant (Édouard)
Civilisation de l’Universel
Tout-monde
Négritude
r(R)elation
title Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
title_full Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
title_fullStr Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
title_full_unstemmed Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
title_short Glissant/Senghor : « Consentir à l’autre »
title_sort glissant senghor consentir a l autre
topic Senghor (Léopold Sédar)
Glissant (Édouard)
Civilisation de l’Universel
Tout-monde
Négritude
r(R)elation
url https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12963
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