Citations:under erasure

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1. (idiomatic) Of a bit of text, written and strickenthrough; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.
   • 1904, W. O. E. Oesterley, "The Old Latin Texts of the Minor Prophets", in The Journal of Theological Studies, Clarendon Press, page 94,

     fol. 66 b l. 13 the letters under erasure were something like cacis.

   • 1956, in North Dakota Quarterly, University of North Dakota, page 31,

     […] Sinclair Ross’s writing is under erasure, Philip Bentley’s has been erased, and what the reader is given instead is the diary of the failed writer’s […]

   • 1956, in North Dakota Quarterly, University of North Dakota, page 91,

     […] written “under erasure,” like the colonized, like the feminized. Orlando’s early glimpse of the scruffy poet writing in the scullery haunts him while he is […]

   • 1962, in Cahiers de Linguistique Théorique Et Appliquée, Académie de la République populaire roumaine, page 14,

     Such a project necessarily presupposes the re-centering of the rational human subject, which — no longer under erasure — should resume his privileged position in history as an agent of social and political change.

   • 1963, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, University of California Press, page 192,

     It is not unlike Derrida’s device of writing under erasure in which a term of metaphysics is used at the same time that it is cancelled out.

   • 1979, Wayne Clayson Booth, Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 367,

     Needless to say, everything I write about Derrida is, like everything he writes, sous rature, “under erasure”: cross out this footnote.

   • 1987, Marjorie B. Garber, Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature As Uncanny Causality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179,

     A concept is said to be “under erasure” when it is put in question or under critique. This signifying practice, employed by Martin Heidegger and, after him, by Jacques Derrida and other deconstructive critics, is described by Gayatri Spivak as “to write a word, cross it out, and then print both word and deletion. (Since the word is inaccurate, it is crossed out. Since it is necessary, it remains legible.)”

   • 1997, Shannon Bell, "On ne peut voir l’image [The image cannot be seen]", in Brenda Cossman, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: pornography, feminism, and the Butler decision, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 216,

     What is under erasure in the discussion of justice in the original position is all knowledge of the features that distinguish one person from another.

   • 2006, Martha L. Whitaker, in Delease Wear, Martha L. Whitaker, and Mary Aswell Doll, Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 48,

     If we are to write under erasure, can we also speak in ways that will allow the words to enlighten but not to reify?

   • 2006, Gordon Teskey, Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 59,

     It was to acknowledge this difficulty that Heidegger proposed in Zur Seinsfrage (1955) to write “Being” under erasure, so that the visible crossing-out of the word would display its negation as an act taking place within time.