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        Date: 2019-01-11 16:09:10+00:00
        From: Richard Cunningham 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.319: centre to periphery?

Hi Willard,


Since my undergraduate studies in English in the 1980s I've associated the shift
from centre to periphery with the study and spread of deconstruction,
specifically Spivak's 1976 translation of Derrida's de la Grammatologie (1967).
In no way do I assert that as any kind of authoritative history, but it was in
the water, as it were, when I was a student and too naive to ask if things had
ever been different.


Cheers,

Richard

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                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 319.
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        Date: 2019-01-10 08:51:30+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: centre to periphery?

This is undoubtedly a naive but difficult question. I'd be very grateful
for pointers.

When did the attention of scholars turn from centre to periphery? from
the socially privileged to the demotic? It's everywhere now, but I
expect that a turning point occurred sometime in the latter half of the
20th Century and would like to know what set it off. And I expect that
like any historical change, this turning point is somewhat arbitrary,
that prescient precedents can be identified. But, to put it crudely,
measured by numbers of articles and books, when did the graph start its
steep ascent? What marked that ascent?

Many thanks.

Yours,
WM
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