Postcolonial/Poststructural

Homi Bhabha (in an essay in Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies ) sees the connection clearly: “My growing conviction has been that the encounters and negotiations of differential meanings and values within ‘colonial’ textuality, its governmental discourses and cultural practices, have enacted avant la lettre , many of the problematics of signification and judgment that have become current in contemporary theory – aporia, ambivalence, indeterminacy, the question of discursive closure, the threat to agency, the status of intentionality, the challenge to ‘totalizing’ concepts, to name but a few.”

Deconstruction first takes shape not in Paris but in Algiers and Delhi.