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A Concentrated Itinerancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

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In the preface Joan Aesthetic education in the era of globalization, her Remarkable collection of field-defining essays written over a quarter century, Gayatri Spivak recounts how she retrospectively “discovered” an informing motif: the “distracted theory of the double bind.” She briefly notes that “distracted theory” is a “poor but accurate translation” of théorie distraite, the term Derrida used in the preface to Psyche: Inventions of the Other to characterize the relation between that collection of occasional essays and his ongoing theoretical project (ix).

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 129 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 507 - 511
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2014

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