Hello /lit/, I'm starting to get interested in Deconstruction and would like some recommendations on where to begin.
I only took a handful of literature courses while in college, so I was never formally introduced to the technique.
So, which books, essays, etc. would you recommend for someone who is just starting out?
>inb4 "Derrida is incomprehensible"
>>7859822
the method is to look for what is socially constructed and attack the margins of the construction...the barriers, lines, boundaries, binaries that fall apart under closer examination.
An easy to understand example from the 90s: Ann Ducile "Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference" easy to find online.
>>7859829
Thanks.
>>7859829
>queer theory
NO.
>>7859822
>>7859856
why not?
>>7859861
Is this Chomsky crap or no?
>>7859868
no.
it is from a thread on his
>>7859822
Also a quote I like from the Ducille essay I like that touches on the problems of deconstructionism as a method - "This is the irony of deconstructionism and its failure: things fall apart, but the centre holds remarkably firm. It holds precisely because the very act of theorizing difference affirms that there is a centre, a standard, or - as in the case of Barbie - a mould. "
Start with Saussure, Heidegger, and Levi-Strauss.
>>7859867
Nothing good comes from that shit.
screw the pomo shit read Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim for da real shit
>>7861324
>veggie sisters
Kek.
>>7859829
So, will this make me a better reader or no?
>>7859861
very informative, thanks
>>7859888
Too difficult.
