Deconstructive Discourse of Content as Reflected in Haddis Alemayehu’s Fikir Eske Mekabir
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Derrida’s theory of Deconstruction is a continuation of a line of thinking started by Nietzsche
and running through Martin Heidegger. It has been variously presented as a philosophical
position, a political or intellectual strategy and a mode of reading. Deconstruction’s line of
thought is marked by a radical rejection of ‘Platonism’ or the framework of ‘Philosophical
distinctions’ which is inherited from Plato and dominated European thought. Deconstruction
is highly considered by students of literature and literary theory after Derrida’s presentation
of his thesis “Structure, Sign and Play in Discourse of Human Science. By this, Derrida
“decenter” any absolute knowledge and the former intellectual cosmos. Therefore, the
introduction part gives the highlights of the essence of the theory of deconstruction.
Chapter two deals with the basic conceptual issues of deconstruction from various
perspectives and its application in literature other than philosophy. In the chapter binary
oppositions are considered as a meaning generating units in a text. And, chapter three gives
the practical deconstructive discourse of Haddis Alemayehu’s ‘Fikir Eske Mekabir’. Hence,
the novel is employed as a deconstructive text and reveals the socio-economic and political
realities of the feudo-bourgeois Ethiopia. The conclusion recapitulates the salient points
discussed in the main part of the thesis.
Finally, based on the findings, Haddis is a deconstructionist writer and employs Derrida’s
philosophical and literary notion, deconstruction in his work of art ‘Fikir Eske Mekabir
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