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Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity

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Author(s): Édouard Glissant
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication year: 2020
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The Story So Far

Short impact summary

Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity (2020), published by Liverpool University Press, has been cited 54 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 10% of works in its field and year.

Full narrative

Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity by Édouard Glissant was published by Liverpool University Press in 2020. Conceptually, the work connects to Poetics, Creolization, Identity (music), Literature and TRACE (psycholinguistics).

OpenAlex records 54 citations. That places it in the top 10% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2024 with 28 citing works. Notable citing venues include Dancecult, Time & Society and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. The citing works include 23 book chapters, 16 journal articles and 6 books. They come from 10 countries, led by Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Open Library reports a combined count of 2 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Reduced inequalities among the Sustainable Development Goals.

Narrative note: this summary is AI-assisted and generated from structured metadata/signals.

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54
Total Citations
⭐ Top 10% Cited
2021–2026
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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Moderate
🏛 Practical & Real-World
Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

Access Availability

Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 54 citing works. 20.4% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →

book-chapter (23)article (16)paratext (9)book (6) DancecultTime & SocietyJournal of Postcolonial Writing
Germany (6) United States (5) United Kingdom (3) Australia (2) France (2) Brazil (1) Canada (1) Italy (1) Malta (1) Mexico (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (18) Facility (2) Archive (1) Nonprofit (1) Other (1)
  • Goethe University Frankfurt (2)
  • University of London (1)
  • Western University (1)
  • Vassar College (1)
  • Goethe-Institute United Kingdom (1)
  • Universität Hamburg (1)
  • Audencia Business School (1)
  • Royal College of Art (1)
  • The University of Western Australia (1)
  • Universidade de São Paulo (1)
  • University of Milan (1)
  • University of Malta (1)
  • Princeton University (1)
  • University of Washington (1)
  • Paderborn University (1)
  • Harvard University Press (1)
  • Universidade Brasil (1)
  • SOAS University of London (1)
  • Northumbria University (1)
  • Sorbonne Université (1)
  • Centre Marc Bloch (1)
  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1)
  • Universidad de Londres (1)
  • Voix Anglophones : Littérature et Esthétique (1)
  • Indiana University (1)
  • The King's University (1)
  • University of Göttingen (1)
  • Freie Universität Berlin (1)
  • Villanova University (1)
  • University of Maine (1)
  • RMIT University (1)
  • Oana Panaïté (10)
  • Étienne Achille (10)
  • Rachel D. Friedman (9)
  • Sucheta Ghoshal (1)
  • Norbert Bugeja (1)
  • Silvia Riva (1)
  • Anja Schwanhäußer (1)
  • Cecilia Zecca (1)
  • Luigi Monteanni (1)
  • Markus Meßling (1)
  • Bridie McGreavy (1)
  • Pauline Amy de la Bretèque (1)
  • Melehat Nil Güları (1)
  • Oliver Kautny (1)
  • Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell (1)
  • Russell J. Duvernoy (1)
  • Moses Iten (1)
  • Lucas Marques (1)
  • Joice Tang (1)
  • Devarya Srivastava (1)
  • Kim Feser (1)
  • Tara G. Hill (1)
  • Brian Russell Roberts (1)
  • Clara Hebel (1)
  • Ruth Juliet Wikler (1)
  • Obett Motaung (1)
  • Kateryna Botanova (1)
  • Aguibou Bougobali Sanou (1)
  • Chris Kattenbeck (1)
  • Linus Eusterbrock (1)

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

Evidence of structured teaching use, reading lists, and library availability.

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Concepts & topics OpenAlex

12 specific concepts identified.
Poetics Creolization Identity (music) Literature TRACE (psycholinguistics) Art Humanities History Philosophy Linguistics Poetry Aesthetics

UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex

1 targets detected.
Reduced inequalities (0.55)

Citations OpenAlex

50 most recent citing works (newest first)
This table lists only the 50 most recent citing works; OpenAlex records 54 in total — browse the full citation corpus on OpenAlex →
YearTitleVenueDOI
2026 Psyche at Sea: Outline for a Memory in Fragments CounterText 10.3366/count.2026.0423
2025 Research and/as Relation: Documenting Experiences of Community-Collaborative Researchers in HCI Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 10.1145/3757651
2025 Poetics of Oralitura Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-003
2025 The Curved Times of Memory Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-002
2025 List of Performances and Theatrical Works Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-007
2025 Theosophies, Times, and Theories Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-001
2025 Bibliography Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-009
2025 A Canvas-Body, a Firefly Poetics Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-005
2025 Notes Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-008
2025 On Spiral Time, Condensations Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-006
2025 My Destiny Is to Sing, the Mythopoetic Gesta of the Reinados Unknown 10.1215/9781478061434-004
2025 Relational time and creolizing eschatology Time & Society 10.1177/0961463x251333836
2025 Os rastros de Changó no Pacífico Sul colombiano Horizontes Antropológicos 10.1590/1806-9983e710406
2024 The Aquatic Within Matatu 10.1163/18757421-bja00014
2024 Vantage Points: Critical Essays, Historiographic Accounts, First-Person Narratives TURBA 10.3167/turba.2024.030208
2024 It's How You Flip It transcript Verlag eBooks 10.1515/9783839466674
2024 It's How You Flip It Studien zur Popularmusik 10.14361/9783839466674
2024 Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.001.0001
2024 Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.001.0001
2024 Preface Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.002.0005
2024 Roots and Routes Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0003
2024 Homeric Shadow, H/omeric Light Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0008
2024 Introduction Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0001
2024 Philoctete Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0005
2024 Plunkett Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0006
2024 Achille Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0004
2024 Copyright Page Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.002.0004
2024 The Tribal Poet Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0007
2024 An Odyssean Poem Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.003.0002
2024 Dedication Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198802549.002.0005
2024 Authoring Postcolonial Normality Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0007
2024 The Postcolonial as Vanishing Point Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0004
2024 Chaos and Convergence Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0005
2024 The Universal Invisibility of the French White Writer Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0002
2024 Introduction: French Literature and the Unquestioned White Writer Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0001
2024 Conclusion Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0009
2024 Postcolonial Otobiography Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0006
2024 Colonial Detail and Textual (Dys)Function Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0003
2024 Calling Out the iNovel Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.003.0008
2024 Copyright Page Unknown 10.1093/oso/9780198893134.002.0003
2024 Tides, Touch, and Care in Collaborative Fieldwork Environmental Communication 10.1080/17524032.2023.2296834
2023 Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation) 10.4324/9781003312154
2023 Raving (McKenzie Wark) Dancecult 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.12
2023 Ears as Portals: Alternative Realities of Musical Infrastructures (A CTM Festival 2023 Review) Dancecult 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.16
2023 Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960–1990 (Jon Stratton) Dancecult 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.13
2023 This Track Contains Politics: The Culture of Sampling in Experimental Electronica (Hannes Liechti) Dancecult 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.14
2023 Berghain, Techno und die Körperfabrik: Ethnographie eines Stammpublikums (Guillaume Robin) Dancecult 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.15
2023 Bibliography Unknown 10.1515/9783111128306-005
2023 Universality after Universalism Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation) 10.1515/9783111128306
2023 The flavours of mixing: Postcolonial literary representations of cooking as a feminine mode of creolization Journal of Postcolonial Writing 10.1080/17449855.2023.2233056