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Benjamin Davis (Saint Louis University) gives lecture "Opacity and Voice in Édouard Glissant and José María Arguedas" followed by a Q&A.
Recorded April 15th, 2024.

In this talk, I consider what the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant called "the right to opacity." But instead of looking to the political documents that form the context for Glissant's rights claim, I turn to two moments in the novels of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas. In this way, I suggest that Arguedas illustrates how human rights are lived out not just in law, but also in everyday life.
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Benjamin P. Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of two books: Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics; and Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins. With Kris F. Sealey, he is also the co-editor of Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy. Davis’s work is known for its reconstructive approach to human rights as well as for its pluralistic understanding of philosophy.

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