{"id":454,"date":"2007-10-22T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2007-10-22T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:41:00","slug":"archipelago-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/archipelago-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Archipelago Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.africultures.com\/_uploads%5Cimages_mini%5Cartiste%5Cedouard_glissant.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.africultures.com\/_uploads%5Cimages_mini%5Cartiste%5Cedouard_glissant.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In today&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/span> (but unhappily not in their online edition)<b> Edouard Glissant<\/b>, who, besides being one of the two or three major Caribbean poets alive, is also the preident of  the new cultural center devoted to the history of slavery in Martinique, speaks of his &#8220;archipelago thinking&#8221; and of the necessary creolization of languages and cultures. Here&#8217;s a tiny extract:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If you take African rhythms and Western instruments such as the saxophone, violin, piano, trombone, then you get jazz. That&#8217;s what I call <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">creolization<\/span>. I am certain that the Asians and Hispanics, the Whites and the Blacks in the cities of California will some day create something new, that will be just as wonderful jazz.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Glissant is one of the most under-translated major poets \u2013 and should, in my opinion, have gotten the Nobel in the year he was short-listed and when it was given in the end to Derek Walcott, a far less interesting and innovative poet and thinker.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung (but unhappily not in their online edition) Edouard Glissant, who, besides being one of the two or three major Caribbean poets alive, is also the preident of the new cultural&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}