Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the RealThrough examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:
Exploring current ideas of performativity in literature and language, and negotiating a path between feminist theory’s common pitfalls of essentialism and constructivism, Caroline Rooney argues convincingly that by rethinking our understanding of gender we might also equip ourselves to resist racism and totalitarianism more effectively. |
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... According to Arthur Cools, for Levinas the il y a pertains to what precedes writing and, for Levinas, this is 'the existential density of the void itself'. 6 It could be said that Levinas may thus be concerned with a presenting ...
... According to Arthur Cools, for Levinas the il y a pertains to what precedes writing and, for Levinas, this is 'the existential density of the void itself'. 6 It could be said that Levinas may thus be concerned with a presenting ...
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... According language a precedence over reality can indeed foster an omnipotence of word and thought, one that can seek to literalise itself in an authoritarian manner. Barthes not only transfers an authorisation become groundless the ...
... According language a precedence over reality can indeed foster an omnipotence of word and thought, one that can seek to literalise itself in an authoritarian manner. Barthes not only transfers an authorisation become groundless the ...
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... according to a set of instructions, or the running of a computer programme. (p. 13) Although Ridley admits that there is no central authority ('dictator' it could be said) in the making of organisms (p. 175), unlike Coen, he yet ...
... according to a set of instructions, or the running of a computer programme. (p. 13) Although Ridley admits that there is no central authority ('dictator' it could be said) in the making of organisms (p. 175), unlike Coen, he yet ...
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... according to the manner of Hall's text rather than that of Woolf's. or a What could clarify this question of obedience is that there is a distinction to be made between a logo-centric performativity and creative performance. Logo ...
... according to the manner of Hall's text rather than that of Woolf's. or a What could clarify this question of obedience is that there is a distinction to be made between a logo-centric performativity and creative performance. Logo ...
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Contents
From monstrosity and technoperformativity to sumud 13 | |
Radiance or brilliance 75 | |
the philosophical type 93 | |
women of Zimbabwe 126 | |
Shakespeare the shaman 162 | |
a conclusion 190 | |
Notes 218 | |
Index 234 | |
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