The craving for the communication of Édouard Glissant and Chilean anthropological literature

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Abstract

This article answers the question about the character of the Chilean anthropological literature in its hybrid position between science and literature, for it uses the categories of the anthropologist and literary native of the Martinique Édouard Glissant, with regard to his conception of "All World" as a possibility of transcultural understanding, using concepts such as archipelago, rhizome (at its source in the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari), opacity, chaos and creolization. With this we managed to assume the Chilean anthropological literature as a textual form that responds to own definitions of literature and poetry and that is basically defined as an instrument of intercultural communication, with an origin in the social sciences.

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all-world, literature, anthropology, Glissant, opacity, identity