episode 9 with sora han
In this episode
Caro Fowler and former RAP fellow Sora Han revisit Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation and his frequently invoked concept of "the right to opacity." Beginning with Glissant's dedication to the murdered Jamaican poet Michael Smith, they explore the relationship between poetry, sound, and performance, asking what becomes possible when we return to foundational texts with fresh eyes and ears.
TRANSCRIPT
Sora Han is the author of Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition (Duke University Press, 2024); Letters of the Law: The Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law (Stanford University Press, 2015); and co-author of the law casebook, Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, 3rd Edition (2020). Her first book of poetry, to regard a wave, was published by Selva Oscura Press in 2024. She is currently a Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, and teaches law and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine.