A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Édouard Glissant
Forces of Creolization reads Édouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and Global South epistemologies, Ruthanne Soohee Kim unveils a method of reading Glissant that centers diffraction, opacity, and errantry-not merely as metaphors but as political and poetic strategies.
Reading Glissant alongside Luce Irigaray, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, and Kamau Brathwaite, Kim shows how creolization resists colonial genealogies, racial essentialism, and patriarchal closure. With her close readings of Glissant's novels, essays, and theoretical writings, Kim theorizes the abyss, the open boat, and the Medusing shoreline as sites where historical trauma becomes creative insurgency.
Here, chaos, revolt, and carnival emerge as generative forces of world-making. Forces of Creolization offers an interdisciplinary framework for rethinking kinship, identity, and futurity, and contributes a necessary feminist aperture to Caribbean thought.
| ISBN: | 9780813955643 |
| Publication date: | 22nd October 2026 |
| Author: | Ruthanne Soohee Kim |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | New World Studies |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Feminism and feminist theory Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Critical theory History of the Americas Literature: history and criticism |
A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Édouard GlissantForces of Creolization reads Édouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and Global South epistemologies, Ruthanne Soohee Kim unveils a method of reading Glissant that centers diffraction, opacity, and errantry-not merely as metaphors but as political and poetic strategies.Reading Glissant alongside Luce Irigaray, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, and Kamau Brathwaite, Kim shows how creolization resists colonial genealogies, racial essentialism, and patriarchal closure.
Forces of Creolization features in the following genres: Social and political philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Critical theory, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism
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Forces of Creolization was written by Ruthanne Soohee Kim and published by University of Virginia Press
Forces of Creolization has 228 pages
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