Glissant makes neologisms collide abruptly like productive inter-cultural contact

Evidence

Indeed, this is Glissant’s intent-to provide sudden contact with an unforeseen relation in language, not unlike the collisions between cultures that he sees as productive of Relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 28

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Winant’s analytic vocabulary pairs neologisms to trace racism and political economy across regions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 27; Relation’s poetics demands concluding theory paired with non-concluding presence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 908; Glissant makes imagination, relation, and poetics the engines of historical change — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 24

Broader Connections

• Relation’s poetics demands concluding theory paired with non-concluding presence #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 908
• Winant’s analytic vocabulary pairs neologisms to trace racism and political economy across regions #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 27