Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvGrant Farred,Sophia Jahadhmy,Alex van Biema

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This book uses Édouard Glissant’s concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi’s distinctive relationships to French colonialism.Both the transfer and the transplant undertake the work of reconciling oneself with the place of first habitation, the process of dislocation, and the new place of habitation. In Glissant’s definition, the transplant makes an effort to maintain the culture of first place of habitation, while the transfer attempts to form a relationship with the new place of habitation. The essays featured in this volume designate Memmi, the Tunisian, as the transplant while Derrida, the Algerian, struggles with the difficulties of the transfer. By engaging with the work of these three figures, this book presents a triangulation of Mediterranean-Atlantic-metropolitan French philosophical thought.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-03
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666949643

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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.