The Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant called for a “right to opacity” throughout his work. Speaking about small countries in the Caribbean in his 1981 Caribbean Discourse, he said, “We demand the right to opacity.” He would reiterate this claim in his 1990 Poetics of Relation, writing again, in the “For Opacity” chapter of … Continue reading Édouard Glissant: The Right to Opacity