Glissant makes imagination, relation, and poetics the engines of historical change

Evidence

Carrying the work of other theorists of Caribbean self..formation, such as Fanon and Césaire, into new dimensions, Glissant sees imagination as the force that can change mentalities; relation as the process of this change; and poe tics as a transformative mode of history. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 24

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Glissant rejects linear logic as a colonial epistemological imposition — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 26; Glissant makes neologisms collide abruptly like productive inter-cultural contact — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 28; Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429
• Glissant makes neologisms collide abruptly like productive inter-cultural contact #expands (0.82) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 28
• Utopian political imagination tests postmodernism’s capacity to imagine change #corroborates (0.80)