By Hamid Masfour
In each twist and switch of the plot, Calhoun’s reflective trip underlies diversified websites of deconstruction opposed to white paradigms, artistically masterminded to unveil major moments of self-contradictory essentialist Eurocentrism. With a counter-discourse advocating inter-subjectivity, human interconnectedness, subjective mobility and 3rd areas, the center passage, as this essay argues, enacts diverse deconstructive concepts concerning anti-Eurocentric cultural politics with rebellious Afro-American poetics
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