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Derrida and Africa

Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida's writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in relation to other African philosophers, from essays that connect deconstruction and diaspora to a chapter that engages the ways in which Derrida-especially in a text such as Monolingualism of the Other: or, the Prosthesis of Origin-is haunted by place to a chapter that locates Derrida firmly in postapartheid South Africa, Derrida in/and Africa is the insistent line of inquiry. Edited by Grant Farred, this collection asks: What is Derrida to Africa?, What is Africa to Derrida?, and What is this specter called Africa that haunts Derrida?
Grant Farred is professor of Africana studies at Cornell University.
Contents Introduction: Africa, Still Remains Grant Farred The Place That Is Not Here: Derrida's Africa and the Haunting of Place Bruce B. Janz Deconstruction as Diaspora: On Derrida, Africa, and Identity's Deferral John E. Drabinski Jacques Derrida: Figure of Maternal Thought Nicolette Bragg Setting, an Example: Derrida's South Africa (and Ours) Jan Steyn Jacques Derrida as an African Philosopher: Some considerations from Francophone African Philosophy Kasareka Kavwahirehi Afterword: Respect for Derrida in/and Africa Jean-Paul Martinon About the Editor About the Contributors
A brilliant, dazzling, differing, and deferring attempt to grasp and at the same time not to grasp Derrida in/and Africa. This work is a very Derridean specter that is haunted by the goal it approaches and yet avoids. -- Paget Henry, Brown University
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