Elham Shayegh

Through the Eyes of Jacques Derrida

Decentering the Centers in The English Patient and Other Pieces

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Produktbeschreibung

Logocentrism is the belief that there is an ultimate reality or center of truth that can serve as the basis for all thoughts and actions. All structures or systems oriented themselves through a center, a moment at which the substitution of elements ceased, something that fixed or held the structure in place. The history of the concept of structure can be read as a series of substitutions of center for center, of a chain of determinations of the center (in terms of being/presence/fullness/positivity). Deconstruction questions the definite judgments, clarity, organization, hierarchy, and solidarity of these centers. In an attempt to demonstrate the decentered nature of reality, its playfulness and fluidity, this collection analyzes the deconstructed nature of identity, culture, morality, and gender in a wide variety of literature including "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, "In Praise of the Stepmother" by Mario Vargas Llosa's, "Corregidora" by Gayl Jones, and "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9783330024939
• ISBN-10: 3330024933
• Artikelnr.: 47429496

Autorenporträt

Elham Shayegh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Miami University, OH. Her interest in Rumi and Derrida continues as she is currently working on a dissertation about the deconstructive functions of poetry in the works of Rumi and Walt Whitman.