Abstract
Martiniquan novelist, poet, playwright and essayist Édouard Glissant (b. 1928), described by the Oxford Companion to French Literature as “the most distinguished and influential French Caribbean writer of the second half of the twentieth century”, and by the French daily newspaper L'Humanité as “one of the greatest figures” of “the French language and world literature”, died in Paris in February 2011. The following is the transcript of a lecture delivered by Professor Glissant on 30 April 1992, at the University of the West Indies, Mona, as part of the Facing 2000 AD and Beyond Lecture Series.
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