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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... appears in Chapter four. This film was originally screened at presentation 'The Word Divides the Hand from the Hand' hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Site Gallery in 2005, and I am indebted to Vera Dieterich for the ...
... appears in Chapter four. This film was originally screened at presentation 'The Word Divides the Hand from the Hand' hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Site Gallery in 2005, and I am indebted to Vera Dieterich for the ...
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... appears to possess a repellent, that prevents its occupation by the members of the group, that converts the gesture of appropriation into a gesture of designation, that is, into an ostensive sign.3 The ostensive gesture concerns a use ...
... appears to possess a repellent, that prevents its occupation by the members of the group, that converts the gesture of appropriation into a gesture of designation, that is, into an ostensive sign.3 The ostensive gesture concerns a use ...
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... appear mysteriously on the stage and appear to speak all by themselves owing nothing to productive processes outside them such as the labour of their historical authors. Barthes fails to address the difference between the author as a ...
... appear mysteriously on the stage and appear to speak all by themselves owing nothing to productive processes outside them such as the labour of their historical authors. Barthes fails to address the difference between the author as a ...
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... appears as the logos, original word of creation, and although Ridley speaks of himself as a zealous materialist, his approach to DNA is yet a highly onto-theological one, that is, specifically with respect to the patriarchal ...
... appears as the logos, original word of creation, and although Ridley speaks of himself as a zealous materialist, his approach to DNA is yet a highly onto-theological one, that is, specifically with respect to the patriarchal ...
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... to give the rhetorical speech act precedence over an action that would otherwise precede it so that the speech act appears to be the originating phenomenon. This is a matter of attempting to defend the logo-centric theory of performativity,
... to give the rhetorical speech act precedence over an action that would otherwise precede it so that the speech act appears to be the originating phenomenon. This is a matter of attempting to defend the logo-centric theory of performativity,
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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