[Commlist] call for chapters for Book Project on ÉdouardGlissant’s Search for New Horizons of Relation

*Book Title - É/douard Glissant’s Search for New Horizons of Relation: 
Visions///of /Transcultural Archipelago/*

*Concept Note:***

Gilles Deleuze is renowned for demonstrating how forming emerging 
coexistence can involve acceptance of diversity based on heterogeneity 
of cojoined elements in the process of becoming.The significant 
difference that Deleuze makes in contemporary thinking lies in the fact 
that his philosophy enables the nomadic people, who recognize their 
roles in the minor fables produced by seers, to hope for the movement 
from stratification and schizophrenia of capitalism into the new world 
brought out of thechaotic present. While Glissant is considered to be 
the most Deleuzian thinker in the Francophone world, he has introduced a 
wide array of concepts that help us to rethink our postcolonial history 
in the era of globalization (i.e.mondialisation), and rapid changes 
emerging by way of the dualism of deterritorialization and 
reterritorialization. His quest to re-establish relational identity 
encompassing heterogeneous elements derived from different roots can be 
seen as the promise of diversity, rhizomatic dispersion, openness, 
relativity, and /métissage//**/toopen doors forOtherness. With his 
concept ‘/Toute-monde/’ understood as an‘all-inclusive world,’ Glissant 
re-negotiates the‘minority literatures’ widespread within an archipelago 
of multilingualism to re-evaluate the ethnography of Relation taking 
shapeas opposed to the English literary canon. These critical concepts 
and approaches to humanism build a theory of creolization to unveil 
marginal, concealed histories that resist mondialisation and unification 
in favor of transculturation, cultural difference, totality, and 
the‘right to opacity.’The edited collectionseeks multiple applications 
of Glissant’s thoughts within the area of humanities highlighting his 
relationships with other postcolonial thinkers and poststructuralism,as 
well as the context of arts wherein the writer discoversenriching 
referencesto music, painting, and poetry. Thus, we aim to decipher 
Glissant’s multidimensional fables that replace our being-in-the-world 
with becoming-with-the-world.

Contributions may deal with questions concerning all genres and aspects 
of critical theory related to Glissant, ranging from postcolonial 
perspectives to philosophy, anthropology, and human sciences. The 
subject matter thereby will develop a wide range of imaginations of 
/métissage/ around the ways in which Glissant may be presented as a 
postmodern figure. The volume will present a‘differential space,’ as 
Gayatri Spivak puts it, constructing a rhizome of contributions. As this 
multiplicity of perspectives is unfinished, the edited collection 
willhighlight the true potential of Glissantian worldmaking.Our aim is 
also to fulfill the gap in audiovisual culture, especially in the realm 
of postcolonial theory and film theory by investigating how Glissant’s 
work contributes to postcolonial studies, philosophy, and cinema. If 
cinema puts in motion the development of philosophical thought in 
Deleuzian sense, this medium can also be harnessed to highlight 
Glissant’s utopianism, which coexists in relational interplay with his 
progressive political commitments. In other words, Glissant believes 
that the cultural politics of the postcolonial world can only hope to 
achieve progressive results if multiculturalvalues remain in the 
vanguard. Therefore, our objective is to expand Glissant’s theoretical 
insights into the audiovisual culture by showing multilingual rootsas 
“islands in an archipelago,” where one can relate amidstdifferences in 
the growing world of cinema and audiovisual culture.

*Possiblethemes (but not limited) to be addressed in the edited 
collection are as follows:*

·Deteriotarilization and reteritorialization

·/Toute-monde/

·Opacity

·Relation

·Rhizome

·Minority literature

·Diversity (Victor Segalen and Édouard Glissant)

·Relativity

·/Négritude/

·/Antillanité/

·Globality (/mondialité/)

·Totality

·Contact of civilization according to Michel Leiris and Édouard Glissant

·Creolized environmentalism

·Creolized world-vision

·Édouard Glissant vis-à-vis Aime Césaire, Frantz Fanon ou Léopold Sédar 
Senghor.

·Transculturalism

·Counter-poetics as resistance

·Cinema and utopianism

*Scholars interested in the topic are invited to submit a short proposal 
of 300 words, and a 100-word bio to (lipinski_kamil /at/ yahoo.com) 
<mailto:(lipinski_kamil /at/ yahoo.com)>and 
(rehnuma.sazzad /at/ yahoo.co.ukby) 15.12.2023*. *Authors whose proposals are 
acceptedwill be requested to submit their final versions by May 15, 
2024. The volume accepts contributions in English*.

*Publisher*: The book is potentially scheduled for the Liverpool 
University Press.The average chapter length can range from 5,000-8,000 
words.***

*There is no publication fee*

*Editors*:

/Dr. Kamil Lipiński /

/Dr. Rehnuma Sazzad///

*//*


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