This at least partly accounts for the early difficulty in assessing Glissant's significance and in establishing his literary and ideological credentials. He was neither exclusively poet, novelist, dramatist nor essayist but creatively combined all categories, often simultaneously. He offered a bewildering range of ideas at a time when surrealism, negritude and francophonie were the dominant movements. No one initially seemed to know quite what to make of Glissant and his work. We are proud to offer a 25,000 fellowship to the top two. While the novel can be read as a political drama, a bildungsroman. It tells the story of Thaël, a young descendant of maroons, who travels to the low-lying town of Lambrianne to carry out the political assassination of a renegade named Garin. This is especially so given the present theoretical context of post modernism and the general interest in cultural diversity that Glissant's ideas seem to have anticipated. The douard Glissant Tout-Monde Assistantship for PhD Studies in French. La Lézarde, originally published in 1958, is Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant’s first novel. Since one of the distinctive features of Glissant's work is the fusion of the imaginative and the theoretical, it comes as no surprise that his influence should transcend the narrowly literary. The use of such terms as opacité, détour and relation is increasing as these notions have become the investigative tools of literary critics as well as of those whose concerns are anthropological, sociological and linguistic. There is also evidence of his emerging status as a theorist whose concepts and terminology have gained widespread acceptance. The novel exposes the creativeness of the process of Creolization at work while the essay strives to. Respectively a novel and an essay, both works are complementary of one another. At present, Edouard Glissant's eminence not only in French Caribbean literature but in Caribbean literature as a whole is undisputed. Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting. The dissertation captures the pluralistic intertextuality that underlines the question of Creolization in Glissants Tout-monde and Traité du Tout-monde.

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