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This study looks at a paradigmatic example of criticism of the coloniality of power from an intellectual position which aims to transcend the national tradition of intellectual fact. The writer and thinker from Martinique, Edouard Glissant, will serve as a starting point; it will therefore be necessary to show how the issues of colo-niality (or alienation), subjectivity and alterability in their relationship to the history of the Antilles are articulated and discussed. How the author of L'Intention poetic succeeds in building a literary discourse and philosophical thinking in an alternative and distinctive setting in the French intellectual world and the afrodescending diaspora. One could speak of 'alternative thinking' because it tends to deviate from the coloniality of power (or alienation) on the one hand, and it forms part of a favourable tem-porality (or moment), which causes it to change what is decisive in the field of speech on the Antilles. To do so, Glisser proposes what he calls the 'Relation', which is a broad framework for rethinking 'globalisation.' Thus, the following hypothesis: the alternative discourse proposed by Glissant attempts to deconstruct Eurocentrism in how to think about subjectivity (or identity) and alienation. It can be understood as one of the powers of coloniality of power whose structuring force remains its internalisation by agents, so that it appears to them as a natural essence; they are thus alienated (Marx and Engels 319-20) because they are even more governed by something that departs from them. Two strong points support the above assumption. First, the history of thought: the deviation from existentialism and structuring; secondly, the correspondence between those external determinations and the reading of two Roman texts by Edouard Glissant, the fourth century (1964) and Malemort (1975), illustrative of that day. ; International audience ; This study looks at a paradigmatic example of criticism of the coloniality of power from an intellectual position which aims to ...

Résumé Sous la plume d'Aimé Césaire, le leader indépendantiste congolais Patrice Lumumba, assassiné le 17 janvier 1961, devient lieu d'interrogation critique de la colonialité du pouvoir ainsi que de l'historicité et de l'historialité postcoloniales dans la littérature antillaise. Pour Césaire comme pour Sartre, Lumumba est une incarnation de la prise de conscience nationale face au tribalisme, comme mode de lutte contre les colons. Cependant, si chez Césaire Lumumba se caractérise par une proximité fraternelle et spatio-temporelle avec le peuple, Sartre voit chez lui une figure de l'« ambivalence », une incarnation des contradictions de la « bourgeoisie noire » face à la colonisation. Son éloignement de la masse représentant alors les raisons de son échec. Buata Malela se livre ici à un exercice d'interprétation littéraire et politique qui participe de l'actuel retour critique sur les colonisations et les décolonisations.