The Haunting Letter: Presence, Absence, and Writing in Sab

Written expression allows for communication across absences both spatial and temporal. In fact, Jacques Derrida argues in his essay “Signature Event Context” (1988) that absence is an element of every communication and, because of this absence, meaning shifts with new contexts and displacements. Wh...

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Main Author: Emmy Herland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2019-05-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3674