ABSTRACT
Introduction Unfortunately, the terms “post-structuralism” and “postmodernism” are sources of confusion too often within and outside the halls of the academy. At times collapsed into each other, and also given the jingoistic moniker of “French theory” (Cusset 2008), post-structuralism and postmodernism, though perhaps already passé, are still terms that are worth clarifying. If anything, though they are rarely understood (well at least), post-structuralist and postmodern thought, at this point, are too widely influential in a variety of disciplines not to be taken seriously. And it is precisely because post-structuralist and postmodern thought have gained some kind of “legitimacy” in Western academic discourse that I believe it is high time to revisit it.
