Derrida’s Black Accent: Decolonial Deconstruction
This article examines the extent to which the French-Algerian philosopher of so-called deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, has been misread as thinking and writing exclusively in a white, Western idiom. It addresses and investigates Derrida’s infrequent claim that his approach to deconstruction was alw...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2023-08-01
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| Series: | ReOrient |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.8.1.0004 |
| Summary: | This article examines the extent to which the French-Algerian philosopher of so-called deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, has been misread as thinking and writing exclusively in a white, Western idiom. It addresses and investigates Derrida’s infrequent claim that his approach to deconstruction was always focused on racism and Eurocentrism, by revealing and theorizing what is designated as ‘Derrida’s Black Accent’. Namely a critically accentuated idiom of thinking and writing, performed and informed by drawing upon the Black Radical Tradition, that challenges the colonial-racial hegemony and white sovereignty of the West. The article concludes that deconstruction in Derrida's Black Accent is a radical intervention in decoloniality. |
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| ISSN: | 2055-5601 2055-561X |