Gorée initially appeared in Édouard Glissant’s collection Yokes (1979), but is also included in the collection Black Salt (1998), an anthology in English translation of three separate collections of Glissant’s poetry—Le sel noir (Black Salt), Le sang rivé (Riveted Blood),… Read More ›
Édouard Glissant biography
Analysis of Édouard Glissant’s Elited Prose
In Elited Prose, from his collection Yokes (1979), we see an example of Édouard Glissant’s broader creative view. Whereas in Gorée, his condemnation of slavery is clear and direct, Glissant does not repeat a militant Négritude sensibility in all his… Read More ›