Deconstruction and DerridaDeconstruction and Derrida

Presented By :Presented By :

A Presentation on

Jani Amita C.

M.A. Sem - II

Deconstruction and Derrida

• What is deconstruction?

– Subvert or undermine

– Conflicting forces within the text itself

– The attention was shifted from writer to the work

Concept of Supplimentarity

• Free play of meaning

• Lacks of truth in the word that it employs

• “Trace”

– For example :

Bat Cricket Bat

Flying animal

Unpleasant woman

What is “Nature”?

1)

2)

Decentering the Center• Metaphysics of presence • There is no a – textual origin of a text• How text can be subverted ? For example..

– “Ramayan”• Is “Ramayan” a “Dalit” text?• Why “Bramhin” is villain?• How “Kshatriya” is used?

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• Idea• सरका�र एका वि�चा�र है�

Identity Text

Religion

Reason

Education

Culture

Civilization

Literature

Art

Conclusion

• Let us conclude with M.H. Abram’s observation “Derrida

emphasis that to deconstruct is not to destroy; that if task is to

dismantle the metaphysical and rhetorical structure”.

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