Abstract
Historical awareness has been the great challenge of societies wishing to understand their identity and to shape themselves in time. Probably this is the effort that Édouard Glissant, a martinican author, has assumed through his works: the arduous exercise in recovering in the opacity of history the scattered fragments that participate in the composition of the Caribbean and Latin American identities. This article seeks to present the author's thinking, recovering his understanding of memory, history, literature and orality, which present themselves in the form of new conceptual categories such as traces-residues, poetics of the relation or chaos-world. From his work, we reconstruct his analytical trajectory for the elaboration of the concept of creolization.
Keywords:
Memory; Identity; Caribbean; Édouard Glissant; Creolization