The Case for Incomprehension

<p>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 conc...

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Main Author: Neal Allar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2015-08-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/680