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Article: Decolonizing the terrain of Western theoretical productions. (Jewish philosopher-critic Jacques Derrida's denial of his Algerian roots)
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- June 1, 1997
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In time every event becomes an exertion of memory and is thus subject to invention. The farther the facts, the more history petrifies into myth.
(Derek Walcott 23)
Jacques (or Jackie) Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El-Biar (Algeria), as were his father and grandfather and several generations before them, the third baby-boy of Aime Derrida and Georgette (Safar) Derrida, a prosperous Sephardic Jewish family whose ascendants had fled the Spanish Inquisition.(1) The Derridas set up house in la rue Saint-Augustin in 1923, the year they got married. A town hall document dated October 21, 1871, confirms that Georgette Safar's grandfather, "born in Algiers ...
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