The surreal dimension in the humanitarian project of Edouard Glissant

Abstract

Edouard Glissant is considered one of the greatest writers, literary and philosophers of our time. He managed to extract a new positive concept of differentiation and contradiction between the different races and ethnicities, despite the great suffering he and the people of his race experienced from the colonial policy of France until recent times. By this he approaches a richer surreal concepts based on the extraction of energies and forces repressed within man by the approximation of contradictions. In this research, we try to highlight the rapprochement between the surrealist concepts and the thought of a Glissant which is considered a contemporary of the latest generation of the founders of Surrealism like André Breton and Paul Eluard.