The Politics of Édouard Glissant’s Right to Opacity

CLR James Journal 25 (1):59-70 (2019)
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The central claim of this essay is that Édouard Glissant’s concept of “opacity” is most fruitfully understood not as a built-in protection of a population or as a summary term for cultural difference, but rather as a political accomplishment. That is, opacity is not a given but an achievement. Taken up in this way, opacity is relevant for ongoing decolonial work today.

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Benjamin Davis
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Creolization’s Newness.Jeta Mulaj - 2024 - In Kris F. Sealey & Benjamin P. Davis, Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 27-60.

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