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Analysis Of The Sea Is History By Glissant

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Wrestling with H/history. Writers of the Caribbean wrestle with the multiple narratives of their histories. Discuss both Glissant’s and Walcott’s view of History and history. Edouard Glissant was born in Martinique, 1928. Glissant a French speaking West Indian poet and novelist who was a part of the literary Africanism movement. Glissant was a disciple and countryman of poet Aime Cesaire, who founded the Negritude movement to encourage an African culture free of all colonial influences. Glissant was the prominent critic of the Negritude movement and father-figure for the following Creolite group of writers. Glissant work stresses on questions of language, identity, space and history. Glissant develop the notion of Antillanite which seeks …show more content…

Lucia, Derek Walcott is a poet and playwright who is an inspiration to contemporary literary scholar. Growing up in an isolated ex- British island has had great influence in Walcott’s life and work. The poem, “The Sea is History,” real message is it’s flip on the concept of Time and History as we know it and value it. A shift in the perspective of the tribes conquered, the slaves that were killed and chained up to work and sold off, to be dumped at sea and for their History to be written by the very same people who chained them, sold them, killed them in all the History books found in schools. This piece of art, this poem, “The Sea is History,” uses words that makes a clear imagery that everyone should truly see. In this poem, Walcott uses English language to stimulate his own version of History. In the beginning of the poem it explains the birth of the Antilles as we know it today. “The lantern of a caravel, and that was genesis.” Remembering that Christopher Columbus arrived to America in three ships in which two were caravels and one went ashore Hispaniola. Spain and its caravel were on the edge of being colonizers themselves. Acknowledging that the caravel as genesis the voice that answers in the poem recognizes his ancestor. It is because of the caravel we get to read the poem. Hence the sea as history. In a literal sense, the sea is where the history of the Caribbean lies. “The slaves and the indentured servants were brought on the sea, died on the sea, were buried in the sea. Even the colonials came and left on the

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