@inbook{83a1de17f98d4fa7b4b15fc9e17d95d3,
title = "Edouard Glissant and the framing of diaspora",
abstract = "The point of departure of this chapter is a desire to address a critical aporia in diaspora studies, namely the common omission of mention of {\'E}douard Glissant{\textquoteright}s work by scholars in this field. It has often been assumed that as Caribbean postcolonial communities have long been settled in their geo-cultural context, they do not fit the criteria commonly employed to define the {\textquoteleft}diasporic{\textquoteright} specifically. I argue that it is a rather technical definition of the diasporic derived in particular from the seminal conceptualisations of Safran which have led to this omission and that a broader and deeper engagement with African diasporic cultural productions points rather to Glissant{\textquoteright}s preoccupation with {\textquoteleft}Caribbeanness{\textquoteright} as being part and an expression of an African diasporic inheritance. From here, the chapter proceeds to explore the ways in which the aestheticism which pervades all of Glissant{\textquoteright}s writing – from his insistence on the imaginary to his long-standing interest in the fine arts, and to the spillage from his poetic writing into his theoretical writing – challenges the norms of Western thinking and ultimately culminates in a lauding of beauty as not just an aesthetic but also an ethical and, by implication, political ideal.",
author = "Samuel Coombes",
year = "2024",
month = oct,
day = "31",
doi = "10.4324/9781003295129-7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032270319",
series = "Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions",
publisher = "Routledge",
editor = "Chambers, {Eddie }",
booktitle = "The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}