Rimbaud à la lumière de Glissant

This article proposes a reading of Illuminations by positioning Rimbaud’s prose poems in relation with the poetic oeuvre of Edouard Glissant–the Martiniquais poet who took Rimbaud as an inspiration for conjoining poetic and political revolt against occidentocentric forms and frames of domination in the era of postcolonialism. For Glissant, the semiotic and hermeneutic “opacity” and “errance” of Rimbaud’s corpus prefigures nothing less than the decolonialisation of francophone poetry.