Attention to textual specificity earns the right to imagine impossible unified justice.

Evidence

I am learning to write on Mahasweta as if an attentive reading of her texts permits us to imagine an impossible, undivided world, without which no literature should be possible. This is a learning because such a permission can be earned only by way of attention to the specificity of these writings. … I have, perhaps foolishly, attempted to open the structure of an impossible social justice glimpsed through remote and secret encounters with singular figures; to bear witness to the specificity of language, theme, and history as well as to supplement hegemonic notions of a hybrid global culture with this experience of an impossible global justice. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2197

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘impossible/possible’ structure of justice mirrors Derrida’s aporia and directly parallels the reader’s strategic-essentialism question about sustaining an ironic project without collapse into literal belief.