The Case for Incomprehension
I argue that Glissant conceived of opacity first and foremost in his poetry and in his readings of earlier writers, from Mallarmé to Saint-John Perse to William Faulkner, whose moments of complication or incomprehensibility he found productive. By examining the literary valence of this concept of Ca...
Main Author: | Neal Allar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-08-01
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Series: | Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy |
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Online Access: | http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/680 |
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