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Philosopher, Novelist & Poet
(1928 – 2011) · Caribbean
Martinican philosopher, novelist, and poet whose concept of 'Creolization' theorized Caribbean and global cultural identity as perpetually mixing and transforming. His 1990 work Poetics of Relation reshaped postcolonial and world literature theory.
“The sea that separates us also connects us, a liquid continent.
“Relation is not just the relationship between things, but the very texture of being.
“The right to opacity is the right not to be understood.
“The world is moving towards a creolization that is unforeseeable and irreversible.
“Creolization is the world's way of transforming itself.
“Every human being has the right to live a plural life, a life of Relation.