For Perse elsewhere was a given horizon, not an exotic lure to conquer

Evidence

His elsewhere, by contrast: an island, above aIl a conjectural place, where apparently even the poet’s birth already marked a margin. His elsewhere was not like Segalen ‘s, colored by a dream to be approached, a temptation to be satisfied. It was given in childhood, already the evidence of every possible elsewhere. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 249

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts Perse’s ‘elsewhere’ as innate/conjectural ground against Segalen’s exotic ‘elsewhere’ as an approachable temptation — a precise distinction in exoticism-adjacent poetics.