Forces of Creolization: Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture" by Ruthanne Soohee Kim!

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Forces of Creolization reads Édouard Glissant’s poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and Global South epistemologies, Ruthanne Soohee Kim unveils a method of reading Glissant that centers diffraction, opacity, and errantry—not merely as metaphors but as political and poetic strategies. Reading Glissant alongside Luce Irigaray, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, and Kamau Brathwaite, Kim shows how creolization resists colonial genealogies, racial essentialism, and patriarchal closure. With her close readings of Glissant’s novels, essays, and theoretical writings, Kim theorizes the abyss, the open boat, and the Medusing shoreline as sites where historical trauma becomes creative insurgency. Here, chaos, revolt, and carnival emerge as generative forces of world-making. Forces of Creolization offers an interdisciplinary framework for rethinking kinship, identity, and futurity, and contributes a necessary feminist aperture to Caribbean thought. "A brilliant and highly engaging book on the semio-linguistic foundations of Edouard Glissant’s complex, extensive, and submarine poetics. Kim's analysis is original, distinct, and fills an important void in the literature." —Paget Henry, Brown University #postcolonialism #CriticalRaceTheory #feminisme #diaspora #BlackFeminist #caribbeanstudies #theory #frenchcaribbean #antiblackness #poetic #frantzfanon #Martinique #tidalectics #errantry #luceirigaray #edouardglissant https://upress.virginia.edu/title/10231