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right to opacity: a standalone construct

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the claim that cultures and persons need not be made transparent or reducible to another's understanding in order to be accepted in relation.

In comparative literature, right to opacity refers to the claim that cultures and persons need not be made transparent or reducible to another's understanding in order to be accepted in relation. This meaning comes from Glissant (1997) in Poetics of Relation.[1]

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References

Glissant, E. (1997). Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10257

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