Abstract

MONTES-MONTOYA, Angélica. Édouard Glissant and the Créole Cosmopolitization: a new grammar of identity?. Eidos [online]. 2020, n.spe34, pp.112-131.  Epub Nov 16, 2021. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.34.126.

Martinican Édouard Glissant has been one of those authors whose poetic and literary work has made a transhumance in academic spaces and militant groups that identify themselves as decolonial. Being the object of a critical rereading of decolonials, the category of creolization (créolisatio) is positioned - according to some - as a true example of decolonial thought, as an archetype of a non-European epistemology from the Caribbean. Against these ideas, there is a wish to show, in this paper, in what sense Glissant's category of creolization, understood as a phenomenon of the past and a horizon of the future in the whole world, as a chaos that promises a future and that is irremediably creol, offers a renewed understanding of two categories of modern thought: cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitization. Indeed, Glissant's thought dialogues with European modernity, and it does not seem to intend a definitive or partial epistemic break.

Keywords : Glissant; creolization; cosmopolitanism; decoloniality; Caribbean.

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