On the Notion “Post-Deconstructive Narrative”: Text Type or Textual Condition?

Abstract

However, given that a ‘‘penchant for perverse temporality’’ (vii) is one of the hallmarks of deconstructive analysis itself, in both its Derridean and de Manian incarnations, Punday’s title should not be taken as implying a simple (or singular) time line. For example, one might note that Derrida’s critique of the ‘‘metaphysics of presence’’ drastically complicates the semantics of after construed as a temporal operator. InDerrida’s account, presence is an effect generated by mediating representational systems rather than the ultimate bedrock or guarantor of representation; presence is always presence ex post facto. By the same token, in Derridean parlance ‘‘post-