Abstract
The world that Édouard Glissant shares with us in Le Monde Incréé (Gallimard, 2000) seems to exist in a perpetual stage of becoming, never finished, and ever-changing. As the author himself concedes, its unique combination of theater, poetry, history and folklore cannot exist outside the artificially constructed physical and temporal confines of its performance. The second play of the collection, a loosely scripted parable of the rise and eventual decline of Martinique’s sugar cane industry, folds language into this already nebulous amalgam. This paper explores how, in it, two linguistically inspired visions of place, one founded in economics and the other in poetry, compete for superiority, offering an ephemeral yet meaningful glimpse into how words help to shape our world and to define our place in it.
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Evan BibbeeAssociate Professor of French, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, United States
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Space, Time, Language, Place, Poetry, Economics
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