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22. Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context," Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982) 313.
23. Mark Currie, "Poststructuralism and Deconstruction," Introducing Literary Studies, ed. Richard Bradford (Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996) 544.
24. Burke 123.
25. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) 99.
26. Derrida, Of Grammatology 246.
27. Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, trans. William Weaver (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981) 101.
28. Todd May, Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze, (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) 116.
29. Derrida, Dissemination 42.
30. James R. Bennett, rev. of Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva, by Michael Payne, Style (Spring 1995), 6 Feb. 2005 .
31. Derrida qtd in Christopher Norris, Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, (London: Methuen, 1982) 48.
32. Bennett.
33. Critchley 22.
34. Currie 552.
35. Critchley 29.
36. Richardson, "The Other Reader's Response" 35.
37. Writing "sous rature" is a technique which Derrida employs to suggest that something is "inaccurate yet necessary to say." See Gayatri Spivak, introduction, Of Grammatology xviiii
38. Thomas Docherty, Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) 58.
39. Docherty, Alterities 58.
40. For an analysis of frames of reference and reading strategies see Barbara Johnson's double-bind of reading in which each reader interprets within a paradoxical frame of reference which allows her insight while simultaneously blinding her. Barbara Johnson, The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
41. Barbara Johnson, "My Monster/My Self," Diacritics 12.2 (Summer 1982): 10. Although Derrida notes that all humans are displaced, the "woman" he uses as a "model for deconstructive discourse remains a woman generalized and defined in terms of the faked organism and other varieties of denial." Gayatri Spivak, "Displacement and the Discourse of Women," Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida, ed. Nancy J. Holland (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1997) 45.
42. Spivak, introduction, Of Grammatology xviii.

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