Tragedy is the deferred disclosure of a threat to communal filiation

Evidence

Tragedy springs from anl’ situation in which community consent is threatened. Something is “tragic” because the threat will not be discovered (held off or deferred) until the moment in which the community Jeels that the chain of filiation has been broken. The tragic action is the uncovering of what had gone unnoticed. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 310

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines tragedy structurally via deferral (‘held off’) and filiation — the temporality of postponed disclosure echoes strategic essentialism’s logic of holding a position provisionally.
• XREF: connects to: Filiative myth subsumes the individual as a link in the community’s chain — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 282