"The crop": disseminating the writer’s seeds

Abstract

This paper suggests a deconstructionist approach of O’Connor’s story and discusses the possibilities and conditions required to "start" a text according to the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Reflecting on the general decentring at work in the text, the article explores one aspect of the nature of a "text" as a fabric of traces and admits the principle of Derrida’s concept of dissemination as the main structure that organizes it, and takes it as the literal and metaphorical seed or semen of the title