ÉDOUARD GLISSANT


La Lézarde


          The Ripening





Plants of the Afrotropical Realm



Yam / Igname


Number of times mentioned: 2
Latin name: Dioscorea alata
Region of origin: Tropical and subtropical Africa

Quotations: 


"Ignames, acajou " (100)

"Yams and mahogany." (98)

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" Il ne comprend pas, il a l'esprit tout en formes, il est comme une machine, il sépare tout, à gauche le jour, à droite la nuit, mais tout ça, la ville, la terre, les gens, la mer, les poissons et les ignames, tout ça c'est le jour et c'est la nuit, la droite et la gauche." (127)

"But here the whole thing — the town, the land, the people, the sea, the fish, the yams — is both night and day; they' re all one." (126)



Botanical reference: Pedro Acevedo and Mark Strong, “Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies,” Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98 (January 1, 2012): 301-302, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1.



















Image credits:

Tomás Sánchez, Autorretrato En Tarde Rosa, 1994, Acrylic on linen, 1994,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.


Tomás Sánchez, Orilla y Cielo Gris, 1995, Acrylic on canvas, 1995,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.





Text editions:


Édouard Glissant, La lézarde: roman (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1958).
Édouard Glissant, The Ripening, trans. Frances Frenaye (New York: G. Braziller, 1959).