Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant was born on 21 September 1928 at Sainte-Marie, in Martinique. A pupil at the Lycée Schœlcher, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and ethnology at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. Co-founder in 1959, with Paul Niger, of the Front antillo-guyanais, he was forced to remain in France from 1961. He then edited Le Courrier de l'Unesco, taught at Louisiana State University and, from 1995, at the City University of New York. He died in Paris on 3 February 2011.

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