Closed plantation sites keep yielding open-ended meaning after their death

Evidence

Thus, the boundary, its structural weakness, becomes our advantage. And in the end its seclusion has been conquered. The place was close d, but the word derived from it remains open. This is one part, a limited part, of the lesson of the world. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 422

Categorization

• QUESTION: The relation between a closed empirical site and open cultural meaning — is this the ‘loosening without collapse’ mechanism the reader seeks? The paradox that confinement generated openness begs for empirical unpacking.