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Diawara Manthia , director. Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation . 2010. 50 minutes. Third World Newsreel. French with English subtitles. No price reported. www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1299.
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This short film chronicles a 2009 series of interviews between the scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara and the Martinican author, literary theorist, and philosopher Edouard Glissant. Diawara conducts their conversations on the Queen Mary II in a cross-Atlantic journey from Southampton (U.K.) to Brooklyn (New York) as well as on the island of Martinique. During the discussions, Glissant explores his theoretical and philosophical trajectories, particularly his "theory of relation" which produced the concept of "Tout-monde" and was the genesis of his later work. Up to his death in 2011 Edouard Glissant was one of the most important contemporary theorists of "la francophonie," and his seminal work, produced in the 1980s, contributed significantly to Francophone studies and cultural studies theories on creolization, ethnic diversity, and multiplicity. Many of the topics of conversations in this film are drawn from his Le Discours Antillais (1981), a study that greatly influenced cultural studies as rooted in multiculturalism and identity politics. Notably influenced by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, particularly their text Mille plateaux (1981), Glissant's later work of...