La pensée du tremblement

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Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) was born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique. Fervent defender of decolonization and for the emancipation of all people, Glissant studied philosophy and ethnography at the Sorbonne. Former member of the editorial committee of Lettres nouvelles, poet (Un champ d’îles, La Terre inquiète, Les Indes, Le Sel noir), and novelist, Glissant is the author of fiction that reinforced his canonical studies of Caribbean reality, such as his emblematic Le Discours antillais. Glissant developed such key concepts as “créolisation,” “Relation,” and “Tout-monde,” derived from his “archipelagic” experience of the world. Édouard Glissant was a member of la Société Africaine de Culture, founder of l'Institut Martiniquais d’Études, director of Courrier de l'Unesco, Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University, and distinguished professor at LSU and at the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2007 Glissant established the l'Institut du Tout-monde. In 2014 France designated his archives at the BNF as a national treasure.

Sylvie Sémavoine Glissant

Painter and Director de l'Institut de Tout-Monde in Paris, Sylvie Sémavoine Glissant is a clinical psychoanalyst who practices in Paris. She co-authored La terre magnétique: les errances de Rapa Nui, l'île de Pâques (with Édouard Glissant) (Seuil, 2007). She exposes her work under the name of Sylvie Séma. She received her degrees in Psychology, Medicine, and Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VII and her diploma in Integrative Psychosomatics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI.