Rachelle Okawa is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation project focuses on Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s conceptions of linguistic and cultural resistance, namely that of opacity. She is particularly interested in how Glissant’s idea of opacity, as both dissent and new modes of cultural knowledge, relates to issues of translation and memory in Caribbean Literature.
Rachelle Okawa - University of California, Los Angeles
