Quote by Édouard Glissant: “Relation is not just the relationship between things, but the very texture of being.”

Glissant’s central idea is that our existence isn't isolated but fundamentally intertwined with everything else. Our identity and reality are woven from continuous connections and interactions, not separate entities.

'Poetics of Relation' was a groundbreaking work that offered a new philosophical lens to understand global interconnectedness and the complex identities forged in the aftermath of colonialism, particularly from a Caribbean perspective.

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.