Brazilian Jetties of Deconstruction: Ethnocentrism and Colonial Difference

Abstract

Deconstruction has had a fruitful and plural existence in Brazil. This article explors the dissemination of some gestures of Derridean thought in Brazil and how the thought of difference has contributed to the emergence of a liminal character of Brazil, and Latin America, in the so-called "Occident". The concepts of "entre-lugar" (space in-between) (Silviano Santiago), "transcreation" (Haroldo de Campos), "differOnça" (difference-jaguar) (Viveiros de Castro) or "thinking literature" and "vegetable thinking" (Evando Nascimento) are interpreted here as theoretical interventions and jetties that activate the heritage of deconstruction by making creative and non-reverential use of it.