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  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in thinking activity of Derrida and Deconstruction. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! How to Deconstruct a Text?How to Deconstruct a Text? "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique." "Do not naturalize what is not natural." "Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that truth is institutional." Introduction   ▪ Deconstruction is a philosophical movement spearheaded by French thinker Jacques Derrida and other critics during the 1960s. ▪ As a literary theory, it focuses on exposing cultural biases in all texts,whether a passage in a popular book or the flashing script of a television ad. ▪ Readers engaged in deconstruction analyze words and sentences to identify inherent biases and call into question commonplace interpretationsof the text. ▪ While this may sound presumptuous or cynical on the front end, deconstructi

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in thinking activity on "The Future of Postcolonial Studies: Globalization and Environmentalism." So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Summary of Article CONCLUSION THE FUTURE OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES Dipesh Chakrabarty finds that all his 'readings in theories of globalization, Marxist analysis of capital, subaltern studies, and postcolonial criticism over the last twenty five years' have not prepared him for the task of analysing the 'planetary crisis of climate change' (2009: 199).  In third world countries, people are dependent on environment for their daily bread. Businesspeople in order to earn money and to build larger building projects which includes malls, multiplexes and larger businesses hubs, they destroy the natural environment, cuts large number of forests and replace the small homes of people living or working in those areas. They construct dams