Materialising the Other: Pregnancy & Deconstruction

In the ‘Envois’ section of Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card (1980), pregnancy and ‘the child’ keep coming back. As early as page five, there is an allusion to a child of sorts; ‘To the devil with the child, the only thing we ever will have discussed, the child, the child, the child’ (1980: 25). This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joanna Callaghan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-11-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4286/