Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

Grant Farred is the editor of Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought (Bloomsbury, 2019).Sophia Jahadhmy is a Ph.D. candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, New York, USA.Alex van Biema is a Ph.D. candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, New York, USA.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: The UnoriginalPart 1. Transfer: Jacques Derrida1. On the Hyphenated Condition: Citizenship, Belonging and Responsibility to the Selfand Other2. “…and of the shores on which I intend to remain…”: Thinking with LaGuyane/Guiana in Jacques Derrida’s Glas (1974) and Édouard Glissant’s Le Discoursantillais (1981)3. The Fates of FatalismPart 2. Transplant: Albert Memmi4. The Fecundity of a Second-Sight: Albert Memmi and Double-Consciousness, the Veil and Opacity5. Polysemic Pillars of Salt in the ‘Land(s) of Look Behind’: Possibilities and Limitations of Maghrebi Jewish Radicalism in Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt (1955)6. Dachte Armselig: Memmi and BiopoliticsIndex

This is a stunning bit of work, exploring and creating unexpected connections between Memmi, Glissant, and Derrida. An act of collaborative and imaginative reading, Triangulating moves across Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in search of modes of thinking that exceed geography. Exceed, yes, and yet they are made possible by the fabulatory conceptual work of critical reading anchored in those geographies. A book of immense significance, Triangulating shifts our theoretical vocabulary in important, challenging ways.