Essays on Jacques Derrida

‘What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course’ within Jacques Derrida Letter to a Japanese friend. In: A Derrida Reader, (New York: Harvester, 1991). For Jacques Derrida, ‘deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods’ and language itself is unable to disclose...

 In this literature review I will be addressing Jacques Derrida’s concepts on the ‘trait’ of drawing. (in: Memoirs of the Blind. 1993) Jacques Derrida explores issues of the faculties of sight, destituteness of vision, self-representation, and their relation to the draftsman’s drawing and sketching, while...

 The term context in literary terms, describes the biographical and societal circumstances surrounding a piece of literature as well as the time period in which it was written, as Jacques Derrida describes context as ‘the entire real-history-of-the-world’. Understanding the concept of context is an important...

A Jacques Derrida’s narrative seems to be hopelessly obscure as it is inevitable that his text cannot easily be summarized or reduced to one liners, just like we are unable to do so in Toni Morrison’s short story, “Recitatif”. Morrison requires his readers to engage...