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That "incredible unanimal/mankind": Jacques Derrida, E.E. Cummings and a grasshopper *.
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Journal of Literary Studies
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December 1, 2004| Author:
Terblanche, Etienne
| COPYRIGHT 2004 Literator Society of South Africa. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Summary
Jacques Derrida does not take account of recent discoveries about communication within the animal kingdom. This philosopher shifts the entire debate on whether animals respond, or not, into a complex deconstructive zone. He ignores the fact that animals communicate--including Koko the gorilla and the ants--and this goes together with a couple of uncomfortable complications in his work when it comes to a zoological identity. These complications involve deconstruc...
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