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Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language

Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language

Zriba, Hassen

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1680539507
ISBN13: 9781680539509
Publisher: Academica Pr
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language is a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of erasure is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of change and continuity in subjects of human knowledge. It defines erasure as the act of deleting, of removing something, following the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in his book Being and Time, and proceeds with the French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida's meaning of the inadequacy, but necessariness, of some words and concepts. In this volume's working definition, erasure is vital to unlocking the paradoxical nature of the very subject under erasure, allowing us to move beyond fixed binary creations of meaning and significance. Accordingly, erasure substitutes the classical metaphysics of presence (fixed meaning) with an alternative metaphysics of absence, where meaning is always under construction. Signs are relational, not referential.

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