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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... actually be the case). Eric Gans in Originary Thinking proposes that appropriative envy or resentment is a primary definitive trait of humanity where he tacitly equates humanity with a certain masculinity. Gans's thesis strikes me as a ...
... actually be the case). Eric Gans in Originary Thinking proposes that appropriative envy or resentment is a primary definitive trait of humanity where he tacitly equates humanity with a certain masculinity. Gans's thesis strikes me as a ...
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... actually turns out to be about a paradoxical lack of essentiality given that the feminine is designated as unpredictable, variable, ungraspable: nonconformist. When Barthes has the critic or reader usurp the place of the creative writer ...
... actually turns out to be about a paradoxical lack of essentiality given that the feminine is designated as unpredictable, variable, ungraspable: nonconformist. When Barthes has the critic or reader usurp the place of the creative writer ...
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... actually serve to singularise history in the denial of the living histories of others. What further seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that Einstein speaks of is the hypocritical attempt to justify the war machine ...
... actually serve to singularise history in the denial of the living histories of others. What further seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that Einstein speaks of is the hypocritical attempt to justify the war machine ...
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... a techno-performative deconstruction that may be said to ignore what in Derrida's work actually seeks to resist closure. Beyond this, there is a more dynamic approach to deconstruction to be noted that I am not adequately able.
... a techno-performative deconstruction that may be said to ignore what in Derrida's work actually seeks to resist closure. Beyond this, there is a more dynamic approach to deconstruction to be noted that I am not adequately able.
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... actually so. Butler disdains what she considers to be a liberal position of empty formalism: [C]onsider the liberal gesture in which one maintains that the place of the father and the place of the mother are necessary, but hey, anyone ...
... actually so. Butler disdains what she considers to be a liberal position of empty formalism: [C]onsider the liberal gesture in which one maintains that the place of the father and the place of the mother are necessary, but hey, anyone ...
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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