ABSTRACT
This chapter provides evidence which supports an incongruity between the self–centered realization of the European-dominant modernity and its precarious and frustrated peripheral transcriptions, or else between the standard model of the structural dominant Euro–North American postmodernism and its dissonant gleamings dispersed along the axis of the periphery. Classic rationalism will marginalize and diminish everything which does not correspond to the identity-similarity model which guarantees the homogeneity of its culture, subject and language categories: categories which are self-transparent and self–founded on a discourse of authority for which the Center symbolizes the Totality. The "marginal," which had always borne the connotation of the discarded or excluded by the center, is today resemanticized by the postmodern lexicon of the crisis of centrality—a crisis formulated and promoted from the centers of international theory production. The new piece of postmodern information which complicates the center/periphery relationship reconverted into center–decentering/periphery.
