scholarly journals (Re)significaciones suplementarias del dolor en Nefando, de Mónica Ojeda

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 120-144
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Pérez Barreiro

This article addresses the novel Nefando, by Mónica Ojeda, based on the experience of pain as a supplement, from the theoretical paradigm of Jacques Derrida, since its enunciation functions as a sign of a sign, which does not properly represent affect, rather, it generates a false representative that makes the sign itself present only by its absence. Consequently, the enunciation of affect is articulated as difference insofar as it configures a series of possible disseminated and deferred meanings that put into play the limits of meaning by pointing out its original lack. Thus, the (re)signification of pain makes the production of an original discourse impossible, since it produces other modes of signification that call into question the fixity of the discourse and show the de-centering of the textual structure. 

Author(s):  
Emmy Herland

Written expression allows for communication across absences both spatial and temporal. In fact, Jacques Derrida argues in his essay “Signature Event Context” (1988) that absence is an element of every communication and, because of this absence, meaning shifts with new contexts and displacements. When the titular character of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s 1841 Cuban-Spanish Gothic novel Sab – a black slave in love with his white mistress – dies immediately after finishing a letter, he imbues the writing with his presence by way of his first-person expression and personal narrative, while simultaneously ensuring his irreversible absence from his text by death. That his letter outlives him allows for the reiteration of Sab’s final words and thoughts each time his letter is reread. This play between absence and presence inherent in Sab’s letter is the same essential paradox of the specter as described by Derrida in Specters of Marx (1993). Sab’s combined presence and absence in his letter turns him into a kind of ghost that haunts those who read his words.In this paper, I analyze Sab’s letter and its rippling effect throughout the story. The letter acts to identify Sab — and through him the institution of slavery that he both represents and protests against — as the haunting figure of the novel. This haunting, by its very existence, critiques the remembrance of history.


Author(s):  
José Paulo Cruz Pereira

My reading follows the challenge the reader is confronted with, as a sort of enigma, at the beginning of the novel: «did the [UN] soldiers die? Were they killed?». Looking for an answer, it ponders those issues of life and death posed by the fictive world of Tizangara. Those concepts are understood by taking into account not only Walter Benjamin’s positions, in his Critique of Violence, but also the thoughts of both Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. They are helpfull to grasp what is at stake, from the vantage point of an ethical and political critique of violence, not only for father Muhando — the character that is the organizing principle of the entire plot, and whose vision seems to be heavily influenced by judaism — but also for key-characters such as the wizard Zeca Andorinho and the old Sulplício being, both belonging to the circle of those that are closer to him.


2019 ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Majdzik Papić

The article presents how the novel The Translation by Pablo De Santis reffers to the most important concepts of theory and philosophy of translation. Among these concepts the most significant are those which consider the boundaries and mechanisms of interpretation in the act of translation. These ideas are metaphorically expressed by the myth of the fall of the Tower of Babel. The interpretative context for the novel by De Santis is determined by the works of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and Hans-Georg Gadamer. An important research problem is also the relationship between the category of translation and the hybrid genre of the crime novel by De Santis.


Imbizo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikenna Kamalu ◽  
Ene Eric Igbifa

The scholarship on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart dwells disproportionately on the novel’s preoccupation with the twin issues of the place of women in precolonial Igbo society and the disruptive arrival of the first Europeans in an African community. The consensus seems to be that the novel degrades the place of women in traditional society, while it exalts African tradition over European culture with which it came into contact. The present study exhumes these positions with a view to investigating them. Using the deconstructionist model of Jacques Derrida as its framework, the study identifies the binary oppositions constructed around the handling of these thematic preoccupations and upturns the assumed hierarchies which, on the surface, they seem to embody. The study arrives at the finding that the twin positions, which appear to have solidified into a consensus among the overwhelming majority of scholars on the novel, namely that it denigrates women and demeans the white man, are either an exaggeration or a misapprehension. The study finds that the conversation around the novel has by no means reached a foregone conclusion as the novel is susceptible to new and innovative readings, especially revisions of earlier seemingly unassailable readings.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Nil Korkut-Nayki

This essay focuses on the way the main characters in Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca (1938) cope with the haunting influence of the past and attempts to read their struggle through the theoretical approach developed by Jacques Derrida in his Specters of Marx (1993). This approach, termed “hauntology” by Derrida himself, revolves around the notion of the “specter” haunting the present and emphasizes the need to find new ways of responding to it, especially because of the existing ontological failure to do so. The essay complements this reading with the earlier comparable theory of the “phantom” and “transgenerational haunting” developed by psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. A “hauntological” reading of Rebecca through these tools yields results that are significantly different from traditional approaches. Suggesting that the main characters in Rebecca are complete failures in dealing with the specter in a Derridean sense, the essay argues that the novel expects from the discerning reader a more insightful approach and a better potential to understand the specter. It is suggested further that a proper acknowledgement of the specter in Rebecca reaches beyond this particular novel, having subtle but significant implications concerning not only literary analysis but also social and cultural prejudices.


JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Cheristine Aprilia ◽  
Tomi Arianto

This research is aimed to analyse the binary opposition in the “The Goldfinch” novel by Donna Tartt. The problem that analysed in this research focused on binary opposition of major character in the novel. The approach to analysing binary opposition used Derrida's concept, namely the theory of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida which is categorised as a poststructuralist approach. Deconstruction theory is understood as a theory that dismantles existing general views. The concept of binary opposition is directed to analyze the difference between two things which are considered to produce a new perspective and can be accepted by many people. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive method, namely the author described and analysed existing data. The data is from the quotation of the novel. The result of the research is there are five binary oppositions, they are good – bad, valuable – worthless, honest – dishonest, caring – ignorant, and crowded ­– silent. The binary oppositions are found in the characters of the story. The characters in the story represent some of the characters of other people in the real world. People's perceptions about certain human characteristics can be explored deeper and have opposite sides.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Keyla Freires da Silva ◽  
Martine Suzanne Kunz

Resumo: Em Catatau (1975), obra subintitulada pelo próprio autor como “romance-ideia”, Paulo Leminski vive a aventura da própria escrita e cria seu texto a partir da permeabilidade das palavras, das línguas, dos tempos e dos espaços, mostrando o escritor como locutor e o leitor como ouvinte de suas palavras-ímãs. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste artigo consiste em verificar como esse percurso da escrita leminskiana em Catatau conflui para construção de uma escrita movediça, culminando numa reflexão acerca do fazer literário, traço recorrente na obra do autor. Destaca-se, então, o tecer da escrita de Catatau mediante o entrelaçar constante de aliterações, jogos tipográficos, parônimos, justaposições, trava- línguas, num ritmo próprio, como um turbilhão de linguagem. Para que se possa circular nesse redemoinho, buscou-se comparar a escrita do “romance-ideia” com alguns de seus textos poéticos e dialogar com ideias de Jacques Derrida (1973), Gilles Deleuze (1997), Anne-Marie Christin (2006), Márcia Arbex (2006), Arnaldo Antunes (2005) e Jorge Luis Borges (2011). Percebe-se que a escrita de Paulo Leminski está sempre no percalço da palavra, seguindo seus rastros, seja por meio do som ou da imagem. Em Catatau, a escrita é como um laboratório em que a linguagem é experimentada nos níveis sonoro, sintático e imagético sempre em busca de uma explosão de sentidos surpreendentes.Palavras-chave: Paulo Leminski; Catatau; escrita; som; imagem.Abstract: In Catatau (1975), a work subtitled by the author himself as a “novel idea”, Paulo Leminski lives the adventure of writing itself and criates his text from the permeability of words, languages, times and spaces, showing the writer as a speaker and the reader as a listener of his magnets words. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to verify how this path of Leminskian writing in Catatau converges to the construction of a quick writing, culminating in a reflection on literary practice, a recurring feature in the author’s work. Then, the weaving of Catatau’s writing stands out through the constant interweaving of alliterations, typographical games, paronyms, juxtapositions, tongue twisters, in a proper rhythm, like a whirlwind of language. In order to be able to circulate in this whirlwind, we sought to compare the writing of the “novel-idea” with some of its poetic texts, dialoguing with the ideas of Jacques Derrida (1973), Gilles Deleuze (1997), Anne-Marie Christin (2006) and Márcia Arbex (2006), Arnaldo Antunes (2005) and Jorge Luis Borges (2011). It is noticed that the writing of Paulo Leminski is always in the hitch of the word, following its tracks, either through sound or image. In Catatau, writing is like a laboratory where the language is experienced at sound, syntactic and imagery levels, always in search of an explosion of surprising meanings.Keywords: Paulo Leminski; Catatau; writing; sound; image.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Malik Haroon Afzal ◽  
Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri ◽  
Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah

The buoyant shift from form and structure to the fluid constructs of meaning turned discernible in Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction. Meaning or reality that had so long been enjoying a fixed and definite status was worn out with the advent of the theory of deconstruction. The turnaround of what was considered real or true became subjacent while challenging all the existing binaries that had been hegemonizing human comprehension of the world (Derrida, 1997). Relying on the theory of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, the study examines the shift from form and structure to the text itself regarding its privileged and marginal aspects of meaning with particular reference to the novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes. The study suggests that the interplay between privileged and marginal aspects of meaning can constructs multiple meanings and interpretations of a single text. It has further been added that the nature of the theory of deconstruction—change in the fixed status of meaning/reality—at the same time, is a representation of the indefinite nature of modern man who has experienced a bumpy ride of social and religious values resulted due to the political, industrial, economic and technological revolutions. The paper finds that the fluidity of meaning that is the sole characteristic of the theory of deconstruction traverses the contemporary Pakistani fiction in its dealing of the sensitive matters such as religious extremism and dictatorship etc., and Muhammad Hanif’s selected novel is the perfect example of it.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S33-S33
Author(s):  
Wenchao Ou ◽  
Haifeng Chen ◽  
Yun Zhong ◽  
Benrong Liu ◽  
Keji Chen

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