Rhetorics of Silence: Textual Inscriptions and Shadows of Deconstruction in Spanish Criticism

Abstract

This article focuses on the emergence of the so-called structuralism in Spain and specifically the place and some of the uses of the deconstruction in the Spanish critical field from the seventies to our present. A long intelectual autarchy and the presence of “national-catolicism” hampered the access to a body of though that starts with the death of God and walks towards the death of Man. This paper analyzes the works of Nora Catelli and Túa Blesa in order to see how they gave way to new critical perspectives in a country that resisted theory and, in general, any kind of literary thought. In the same fashion, the article draws attention to some of the dynamics inherited by the Spanish academy that demands us to criticise the material conditions of the intelectual activity in a precarious public university.