The Death and Life of Poststructuralism -Surmounting Dilemmas in Recent American Cultural Criticism
Moartea şi viaţa poststructuralismului – dileme ale criticii culturale americane recente

Summary/Abstract: My paper explores the return to the subject and the individual that has been performed over the last three decades in American critical thought. Seen as part of a renewed relationship with the concrete, social realities in the U.S., the phenomenon’s more recent consequences are briefly examined in the context of what is perceived as exhausted postmodernism. I will concentrate on the changes that poststructuralism and French deconstruction were submitted to as a result of concerted pressures in American society and academe. My aim is to argue that, in a double process of redefinition of limits, a more receptive version of poststructuralism coexists with minority politics, the former reinforcing the mobile, relative character of identity.

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