Care webs and the creole garden in Manthia Diawara’s Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation

ABSTRACT This article explores how the techniques of surviving Atlantic slavery leave legacies of care, notably in the practice of the jardin créole (creole garden) as a counter-plantation practice of mutual distribution. By taking up Édouard Glissant’s theorisation of the jardin créole in Manthia Diawara’s documentary, Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation, the author shows how Diawara’s staging, filming and editing of Glissant’s remarks amplify how the jardin créole functions as a care web. In its visual dialogue with the jardin créole, Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation demonstrates the role of documentary film in illuminating the ethics of care.