Writing AIDS,Deconstructing Politicized Discourses on the Body:AIDS in Post-apartheid South African Novels by Mpe and Mhlongo

HIV/AIDS has been one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa over the past 30 years.Novels such as Welcome to Our Hillbrow,Dog Eat Dog,and After Tears are literary responses to the profound shame and fear inflicted by the epidemic on individuals and society.These AIDS narratives serve as a means to deconstruct politicized discourses about the disease.They scrutinize the stereotype that the voracious sexuality of black men is the primary cause of AIDS and challenges the xenophobic notion of contagious foreigners prevalent in post-apartheid South Africa.Additionally,the novels critically examine and satirize the denialist discourse propagated by incompetent politicians who have failed to contain the virus in post-apartheid South Africa.By representing the conflicting voices surrounding HIV/AIDS,these writings vividly depict the social and political landscape of the era.

The Cliff:A Deconstructive Analysis of The Catcher in the Rye

Just as the cliff serves as a demarcation between two different worlds, there seems to the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye the dichotomies between innocence and corruption, children and adults. While these dualisms are projected in the story, they are also deconstructed and the characterization of Holden clearly shows the instability of those dualisms.

Multiple Point of View as a Deconstructing Strategy——A Poststructuralist Perspective on Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim ranks among the modern novels not for its story,but for its unconventional narrative strategies of the comparatively simple plot,especially its employment of multiple point of view as a deconstructing strategy,rendering the text incapable of unambiguous interpretation.The only possible way for the reader to understand it is by active participation,finding out the thread of logic in the chaotic psyche of the multiple narrators.

Deconstructive Reading of Snowed Up: A Mistletoe Story

Snowed Up:A Mistletoe Story,a previously unpublished short story of Richard Jefferies,has been studied from many different approaches,but few papers discuss it from the perspective of Deconstruction.This paper will deconstruct Snowed Up:A Mistletoe Story from three binary oppositions:1) the upper class and the lower class;2) nature and civilization;3) Edie' s inner voice and her actual behavior.Besides,this paper will also try to deconstruct the traditional patriarchy through Edie ' s papa.Analyzing this novel from deconstructive approach will provide readers a deep insight into Richard Jefferies work.

The Influence of Deconstruction on Modern Architecture

Deconstruction originated from structuralismand was first developed in philosophy, butnow, deconstruction has got a broader developmentin architecture It can be said that architects todayare seeking inspiration in deconstruction. This paperanalyzes the far-reaching influence of contemporarydeconstruction from the origin of deconstructionarchitects.

Encountering Deconstructive Propensities in J.M. Coetzee's Foe: An Anatomization on Dualistic Patterns

Contextualizing his Foe(1986) in the backdrop of South African post- apartheid, Coetzee manipulates multifarious postmodern narrative ploys to purloin, rewrite and widen the canon Robinson Crusoe. In plural demonstrations of dualistic patterns, this novel emphatically unravels Coetzee's textual subversion of the traditional overarching"western logocentrism"or"metaphysics of presence"via catechizing and debilitating the orthodoxy of the white supremacy as well as the male superiority.This detailed analysis, giving a Derridean reading, purports to anatomize and deconstruct the binary oppositions of Self/ Other,White/Black, and Man/Woman among Cruso, Friday and Susan Barton, and reach Coetzee's veritable concerns: to dissolve the Imperialist hierarchy and hegemony, to waive racial enclosure, and to build a dialogue that open up a real respect and coexistence for both the centered and the marginalized.

A Brave New World:Feminism under the Influence of Deconstruction

"Deconstruction",coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s,attempts to subvert the tradition of Western philosophy with "logo centrism" as its primary target.Deconstruction's concern on binary oppositions inspires the feminists and provides them with the philosophical ground to understand gender inequality and rebel against the classic dualities of Western "phallocentrism".However,the noticeable political orientation of feminism and its firm humanitarian position compose a fundamental disagreement with the negativism and nihilism of deconstructive philosophy.This essay aims to trace the development of Western feminism at the same time identify some of the agreements and conflicts between the two theoretical trends in postmodernism;moreover,it intends to propose an idealistic attitude in the reconstruction of a harmonious society with gender equality and understanding.

Deconstructing the Deconstruction Theory in Translation Study

Deconstruction is a philosophical or literary theory gradually formed and developed in 1960s.It is viewed as a philosophical trend against structuralism's logocentrism.Although deconstruction theory brings us a new way of thinking toward translation,there exists some "fragments" of deconstruction theories which have caused an enormous amount of controversy.The author will list these "fragments" as to deconstruct deconstruction theory.

A Deconstructive Reading of the Blurred Boundary between Madness and Reason in King Lear

When normal, Lear can not even distinguish flattery and pat answers from sincerity and true love. While considered as insane, he learns to take care of the wretched and is able to discover the truth in life. The key concept of anti-logo-centrism in deconstructive criticism provokes us to reconsider the boundary between madness and reason, and traditional Western philosophical ideas, thus enabling us to appreciate the despised madness in King Lear from the perspective of philosophy.

A Deconstruction Perspective of The Minister's Black Veil

Deconstruction, advocated by Jacques Derrida, is a critic outlook that indicates the pitfall of the philosophical dichotomy in Western convention, revealing the unreliability of human language and conception. Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil,with the obscurity and uncertainty in its disclosure, offers the feasibility for a deconstruction study. The binary oppositions and its deconstruction of the "black veil" in perspective of persona, idea and existence contribute to the void perception and activities of Mr.Hooper, the protagonist as well as the author's literary practice.

Development of Eco-Friendly Deconstruction Technologies for Recycling Construction Waste

Recently, the intended use and required performance of buildings are rapidly changing with advances in scientific technology and globalization. Furthermore, given the population growth in semi-developed and developing countries, economic growth, increasing waste, and increasing amounts of energy consumption, the industry requires the development of efficient methods to deconstruct old buildings by reducing waste and saving as much energy as possible during periods of urban redevelopment and maintenance. In general, either an ordinary breaker or a hydraulic breaker is used to deconstruct reinforced concrete buildings. This deconstruction method has the ability to shorten the construction period compared to the other methods, but it is difficult to separate the debris that gets mixed when the deconstruction is completed, as it is a rough construction method that uses large equipment. This study develops a technology that can be used to selectively heat, separate, and deconstruct the steel reinforcement inside reinforced concrete, treating the reinforcement as a conductive resistor and applying high-frequency induction heating to the reinforced concrete structure. Specifically, this study verifies the temperature characteristics of deformed bars inside reinforced concrete, the occurrence of cracks due to thermal fracture of the deformed bars, and chemical and physical weakening of concrete by thermal conduction on the surface of steel reinforcement using the high-frequency induction heating technology. Furthermore, this study considers the extent of concrete weakening in the heating range of appropriate energy and carries out a technical review of the stages that would be actually applied. This technology involves low noise and low pollution levels, and it increases the collection rate of steel reinforcement inside separated reinforced concrete members and the recycling rate of construction wastes;thus, its use is expected to reduce the energy consumption by minimizing secondary processing.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird: Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Between Imagination and Reality

Wallace Stevens is one of five greatest poets in America in 20th century. The relation between imagination and reality is a major theme of his poems. He holds the view that the mission of poets is to build a bridge linking the world of imagination and of reality with the result of deconstructing the logic of binary opposition since the time of Plato. Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird is a representative poem that expresses Wallace’s thoughts of deconstruction. This article is to probe into how the poet establishes the reality dominated by imagination and then how he deconstructs the binary opposition between imagination and reality since the time of Plato.

A Deconstructive Analysis of The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)is universally recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.He is also considered a member of the“Lost Generation”of the 1920s,and with the publication of The Great Gatsby he was catapulted to fame by a night which gives a concrete illustration to the Jazz Age.Taking the novel as a case in point,this paper,based on the theory of deconstruction,seeks to undertake a deconstructive interpretation towards the binary oppositions on which the projects rest—dream and reality,and the past and the present,in order to subvert logos-centrism represented by Gatsby’s disillusionment with his American dream.

To the Problem of the Deconstruction of Images of Socialist Ideals in Russian Sots Art： Psychoanalytic Aspect

The article is devoted to the psychoanalytic issues of the deconstruction of images of socialist ideals in Russian Sots Art--an ironic title of the artistic trend in which used a mixture signs of visual semiotics of ＂social realism＂ and ＂pop art＂ of the 1990-2000s. By comparing the idealization of the image of Lenin in Soviet art of the 1930-1950s with its grotesque interpretation in Sots Art works of the 1990s, it appears to be interesting to trace the functions of grotesque and caricature in the deconstruction of the canons of socialist realism. Thereupon, special interest is the role of the regression mechanism in the transformation of the ideals of socialist realism into laughable images.

The Deconstruction of American Myth in Thomas Pynchon＇s Fiction

Living and creating in the tumultuous decades from the 1960s through 1980s, Thomas Pynchon unfalteringly chooses the countercultural and civil rights movements in the United States of that age as the permanent topic of his fiction. It can be seen from Pynchon＇s dramatic, sometimes fantastic narratives about these movements that the failure of the countercultural movements lies in their illusive nature in contrast with the hypocrisy and disproportionate power of the government to destruct these movements, and that the presence of American racial problems results to a great degree from the sloth prevailing over various institutions in American society when dealing with racial inequality and from American white racists＇ desire to eliminate an imagined threat in the face of the minorities. This paper tries to provide a different understanding that Pynchon＇s writing of the marginalized or surrealistic issues in these countercultural and civil rights movements is his strategy to expose the falsehood of American myth of democracy.

The Deconstruction Approach to the City Shore

The essay uses the methods of deconstruction to demonstrate the reversing strength of the poem itself, and to invert the binary oppositions of rationality and sensibility, the hierarchy of which is conventionally accepted.

Practicing Deconstruction:Treachery in Little Red Flowers

Little Red Flowers is a movie directed by a renowned young director in China,Zhang Yuan,according to the

Writing as a Supplement： Jacques Derrida＇s Deconstructive Reading of Rousseau＇s Confessions

The present study constitutes a critical appraisal of the deconstructive reading of Rousseau＇s Confessions that Derrida undertakes in the second part of Of Grammatology. In this examination, the author will first list some of the significations into which Derrida disperses （forced, as he asserts himself, by an ＂inassimilable residue＂ in the text itself） the meaning that he has already construed as apparently simple during the first moment of deconstructive reading （i.e., ＂the doubling commentary＂）; the author will then go on to enquire into the operations which enable Derrida to arrive at these self-conflicting significations. The main aim of this essay is to demonstrate that it is not language alone that disables the philosophy of Rousseau and enables the philosophy of Derrida. When Derrida attempts to support his philosophy through an analysis of Rousseau＇s theory of language and the alleged contradictions in Rousseau＇s texts, he misinterprets basic tenets of these texts in order to make them conform to the presuppositions of the deconstructive approach. The ＂reversal＂ and ＂displacement＂ of metaphysical conceptuality in the text of the Confessions is made possible after the text has had meanings transposed into it from a plurality of other texts. Derrida attributes to the text significations he discovers by construing, explicating and over-reading passages that occur elsewhere in Rousseau＇s total oeuvre （especially in the Essay on the Origin of Languages）.

Misreading Rousseau？ Jacques Derrida＇s Deconstructive Reading of Rousseau＇s Essay on the Origin of Languages

Jacques Derrida＇s engagement with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the second part of Of Grammatology constitutes the most systematic, extensive example of deconstructive reading. Nevertheless, the problem of whether Derrida reproduces Rousseau＇s basic claims adequately has remained a peripheral concern. This has meant that this may constitute a misreading and the consequences that this would have for the deconstructive operation itself have not adequately examined. Hence, this enquiry into Derrida＇s reading of Rousseau centers upon the extent to which Derrida distorts Rousseau＇s text in order to be able to confirm deconstruction＇s radical theoretical positions.

A Deconstructive Study of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng is a contemporary Chinese-American female writer.Her novel Everything I Never Told You won the first place in Amazon.com’s No.1 Best Book of 2014.Her gentle and delicate style of writing,precise and restrained diction and serious themes aroused strong repercussions.This paper is proposed to analyze the deconstruction tendencies of the novel from the perspective of deconstruction,showing absurdities and harm of monism incisively and vividly through the analysis of the following three parts of binary oppositions in the novel:males and females,strong cultures and weak cultures,parents and children,which illustrate the reconstruction rather than destruction and provide the possibility of rebuilding the identity and culture of the Asian-American.