In Philosophy
The marginal, the processes of marginalisation, etc. bring specific interest in the postmodern and postcolonial phylosophy and social studies. Postmodernism question the "center" about its authenticy and postmodern sociology and cultural studies research marginal cultures, behaviours, societies, the situation of the marginalized individual, etc.
Linda Hutcheon describes postmodernism itself as "intertextual, parodic, contradictory, provisional, heterogeneous, transgressive of generic divisions, ex-centric and marginal ".
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“Nature in darkness groans
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