Collective historical contact makes the self literally contain the other.

Evidence

Rimbaud’s ” is an other” is literaI in terms of history. In spite of ourselves, a sort of “consciousness of consciousness” opens us up and turns each of us in ta a disconcerted actor in the poetics of Relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 194

Categorization

• XREF: Reads Rimbaud’s ‘je est un autre’ literally — a hinge between poetic maxim and the reader’s strategic-essentialism problem: if the other is genuinely inside, collective identity is never a closed essence. — connects to: Dependence on the subordinated coexisted with total denial of their humanity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1556; People carry history within themselves and must battle it to become more humane. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 277
• DEFINE: Grounds the poetics of Relation in an actual collective subject, relevant to the reader’s question of whether strategic identity is available collectively.

Broader Connections

• People carry history within themselves and must battle it to become more humane. #corroborates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 277
• Dependence on the subordinated coexisted with total denial of their humanity. #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1556