From Exile to Cosmopolitics: Creolizing the Spiritual After Trauma

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Author(s): An Yountae

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Este artículo intenta aclarar los aportes que el tropo del exilio realiza a las lecturas críticas de la globalización desde el punto de vista decolonial. Con este fin, leo la noción de criollización teorizada por el pensador martiniqueño Edouard Glissant. Si la modernidad secular como un proyecto colonial desplazó no sólo la tierra, la cultura y el idioma, sino también lo espiritual, la desvinculación de la modernidad colonial secular requiere repensar y redefinir los marcos básicos con los que nombramos lo espiritual. La filosofía de la criollización y lo espiritual arraigado en su poética del exilio, sostengo, significan una ruptura dentro de lo secular, lo moderno y lo colonial.

Palabras claves: Criollización, Edouard Glissant, Espiritualidad possecular, Exilio.

Este artigo tenta esclarecer as contribuições que o tropo do exílio traz para leituras críticas da globalização do ponto de vista descolonial. Foi com este objetivo que li a noção de crioulização como teorizada pelo pensador martinicano Edouard Glissant. Se a modernidade secular, como um projeto colonial deslocou não só a terra, a cultura e a língua, mas também o espiritual, desvincular-se da modernidade colonial-secular requer repensar e redefinir os quadros básicos com os quais nomeamos o espiritual. Afirmo que, a filosofia da crioulização e o espiritual arraigado em sua poética do exílio significam uma ruptura dentro do secular, o moderno e o colonial.

Palavras-chave: Crioulização, Edouard Glissant, Postsecular espiritualidade, Exílio.

This article attempts to clarify the contributions that the trope of exile makes for critical readings of globalization from the decolonial standpoint. With this end, I read the notion of creolization as theorized by Martinican thinker Edouard Glissant. If secular modernity as a colonial project displaced not only land, culture, and language but also the spiritual, delinking from colonial-secular modernity requires rethinking and redefining the basic frames with which we name the spiritual. The philosophy of creolization and the spiritual ingrained in its poetics of exile, I contend, signify a rupture within the secular, the modern, and the colonial.

Key Words: Creolization, Edouard Glissant, Postsecular spirituality, Exile.

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[1] Althaus-Reid (2003). The Queer God . London: Routledge.

[2] An, Yountae (2014). «Beginning in the Middle: Deleuze, Glissant, and Colonial Difference.» Culture, Theory, and Critique 55, Issue 3: pp. 286–301.

[3] An, Yountae (forthcoming 2015). «Passion for Exile: Thinking Liberation Theology Between Solitude and Solidarity.» In: Teología Latinoamericana de la Liberación: Pasión, Crítica y Esperanza , Volume 2, edited by Diego Soto. San José: Editorial Sebila.

[4] Boyen, Peggy and Juan Carlos Lertora (1989). «Ideology, Exile, Language: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman.» Salmagundi 82–83 (Spring-Summer): pp. 142–163.

[5] Braidotti, Rosi (2006). Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics . Cambridge: Polity Press.

[6] Carew, Jan (1978). «The Caribbean Writer and Exile.» Journal of Black Studies 8, No. 4 (June): pp. 453–475.

[7] Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia , translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

[8] Derrida, Jacques (1995). The Gift of Death , translated by David Wills. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

[9] Diawara, Manthia (2011). «One World in Relation: Edouard Glissant in Conversation with Manthia Diawara.» Journal of Contemporary African Art 28 (Spring): pp. 4–19.

[10] Ferguson, Kathy (1993). The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

[11] Glissant, Edouard (1989). Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays , translated by Michael Dash. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.

[12] Glissant, Edouard (1997a). Poetic Intention , translated by Nathalie Stephens. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat.

[13] Glissant, Edouard (1997b). Poetics of Relation , translated by Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

[14] Harvey, David (2009). Cosmopolitanism and the Geography of Freedom . New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

[15] Kaplan, Caren (1996). Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[16] Lahens, Yanick (1992). «Exile: Between Writing and Place.» Callaloo 15, No. 3 (Summer): pp. 735–746.

[17] Mignolo, Walter (2011). The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[18] Rubenstein, Mary-Jane (2010). Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe . New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

[19] Said, Edward (1994). Representations of the Intellectual . London: Vintage.

[20] Said, Edward (2002). Reflections on Exiles and Other Essays . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[21] Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (2000). Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice . London: Routledge.

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