This edited collection gathers together leading commentators on the work of Édouard Glissant in order to theorize the philosophical significance of his work.

Acknowledgments / Introduction: Glissant, Creolizing Philosophy, John E. Drabinski and Marisa Parham / 1. Glissant's Opacité and the Re-Conceptualization of Identity, H. Adlai Murdoch / 2. In Citation to the Chance: Glissant, Citation, Intention, and Interpretation, Seanna Sumalee Oakley / 3. Glissant's Existential Ontology of Difference, Clevis Headley / 4. Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization, Max Hantel / 5. The Ripening's Epic Realism and the Martinican Tragic Unfulfilled Political Emancipation, Hanétha Vété-Congolo / 6. Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation, Marisa Parham / 7. Aesthetics and the Abyss: Between Césaire and Lamming, John E. Drabinski / 8. Marronage between Past and Future: Requiem for Édouard Glissant, Neil Roberts / Notes on Contributors / Index

John E. Drabinski is professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. His many publications include Levinas and the Postcolonial (2011), which won the Frantz Fanon Book Prize, Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008) and Sensibility and Singularity (2001). Hi is co-editor of the Journal of French and Francophone Studies.
Marisa Parham is associate professor of English at Amherst College. She is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature (2008).
Contributors:
H. Adlai Murdoch, Professor of French, Tufts University, USA; Seanna Sumalee Oakley, Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA; Clevis Headley, Professor of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, USA; Marisa Parham, Associate Professor of Enlgish, Amherst College, USA; John E. Drabinski, Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College, USA; Hanétha Vété-Conglolo, Associate Professor of French, Bowdoin College; Max Hantel, Graduate Student, Rutgers University, USA; Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Williams College, USA