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Project MUSE - Think like an Archipelago: Paradox in the Work of Édouard Glissant by Michael Wiedorn (review)

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Michael Wiedorn has produced a most compelling account of the way Édouard Glissant thinks, or at least of the kind of thinking enabled, even solicited or enacted, by the Martinican author’s writings. Wiedorn’s book lives up admirably to the promise of its title, comprising as this does two very different — almost cognitively dissonant — projects. The main title is an unmarked quotation from Glissant: in the imperative mood, this personification attributes the power of thought to geographical configurations, in this case archipelagos. The subtitle sets the book a more straightforward topic: the study of paradox in Glissant’s writings. In both parts of the title, the (figurative) work and reworking of thought are already to the fore. Wiedorn’s account of paradox in Glissant’s work is economical in the best sense. This is not, then, a survey of Glissant’s entire œuvre or of all the genres in (between) which Glissant wrote. Instead, Wiedorn concentrates very closely on three novels, publis

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