Borders and Margins

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Post is not only a word or a new trend or fashion of some clever academics, or a new gimmick introduced for marketability or in order to concoct a "conspiracy" against minorities of all sorts. Post, in fact, marks an end, and a beginning, of a new field of inquiry which unsettles and undermines previous theoretical discourses and forms of inquiry, while drastically providing an open-ended field of possibilities. It is under the umbrella of the condition of late Post-Modernity that the decentrement of the totalizing/hegemonizing/univer-salizing discourses comes to a closure. It is in this condition where the two discourses of Post-Modernism and Post-Colonialism not only emerge but develop into a Post, in the sense that theoreticians begin to incorporate forms of knowledge previously rejected as "centrist", "white male", etc., forms such as those introduced by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudri-llard, etc. This... Tovább

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Post is not only a word or a new trend or fashion of some clever academics, or a new gimmick introduced for marketability or in order to concoct a "conspiracy" against minorities of all sorts. Post, in fact, marks an end, and a beginning, of a new field of inquiry which unsettles and undermines previous theoretical discourses and forms of inquiry, while drastically providing an open-ended field of possibilities. It is under the umbrella of the condition of late Post-Modernity that the decentrement of the totalizing/hegemonizing/univer-salizing discourses comes to a closure. It is in this condition where the two discourses of Post-Modernism and Post-Colonialism not only emerge but develop into a Post, in the sense that theoreticians begin to incorporate forms of knowledge previously rejected as "centrist", "white male", etc., forms such as those introduced by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudri-llard, etc. This "incorporation" has allowed these two Posts to challenge those very forms of knowledge from within, in the process of appropriation and subversion.
THE EDITORS:
FERNANDO DE TORO is Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Research on Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada).
ALFONSO DE TORO is Professor of Romance Literatures, and Director of the Ibero-American Research Centre at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Vissza