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Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

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Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

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This book uses Édouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism.

Both the transfer and the transplant undertake the work of reconciling oneself with the place of first habitation, the process of dislocation, and the new place of habitation. In Glissant's definition, the transplant makes an effort to maintain the culture of first place of habitation, while the transfer attempts to form a relationship with the new place of habitation. The essays featured in this volume designate Memmi, the Tunisian, as the transplant while Derrida, the Algerian, struggles with the difficulties of the transfer. By engaging with the work of these three figures, this book presents a triangulation of Mediterranean-Atlantic-metropolitan French philosophical thought.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Unoriginal
Part 1. Transfer: Jacques Derrida
1. On the Hyphenated Condition: Citizenship, Belonging and Responsibility to the Self
and Other
2. “…and of the shores on which I intend to remain…”: Thinking with La
Guyane/Guiana in Jacques Derrida's Glas (1974) and Édouard Glissant's Le Discours
antillais (1981)
3. The Fates of Fatalism
Part 2. Transplant: Albert Memmi
4. The Fecundity of a Second-Sight: Albert Memmi and Double-Consciousness, the Veil and Opacity
5. Polysemic Pillars of Salt in the 'Land(s) of Look Behind': Possibilities and Limitations of Maghrebi Jewish Radicalism in Albert Memmi's The Pillar of Salt (1955)
6. Dachte Armselig: Memmi and Biopolitics
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Aug 06 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 222
ISBN 9781978762299
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 1 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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