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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... called author is a receiver – witness, listener, reader and so on – to begin with. The 'author' may be thought of as a receiver of the signatures of all manner of beings. Here, the signature of the writer would be not mark of ownership ...
... called author is a receiver – witness, listener, reader and so on – to begin with. The 'author' may be thought of as a receiver of the signatures of all manner of beings. Here, the signature of the writer would be not mark of ownership ...
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... called “Intelligentzia” that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form – upon the printed page ...
... called “Intelligentzia” that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form – upon the printed page ...
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... called 'derealisation' because it is a disruption of the expected or of habitual consciousness. Freud's experience of the Acropolis as unexpectedly and startlingly 'for real' is a classic example of The significance of this ...
... called 'derealisation' because it is a disruption of the expected or of habitual consciousness. Freud's experience of the Acropolis as unexpectedly and startlingly 'for real' is a classic example of The significance of this ...
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... called humanism and so-called mysticism could be thought of as two sides of the same coin or sheet: the recto and the verso. Given such a perspective, it would be futile to deny one.
... called humanism and so-called mysticism could be thought of as two sides of the same coin or sheet: the recto and the verso. Given such a perspective, it would be futile to deny one.
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... called literals. It could also be noted that non-mechanistic reproducibility, that which engages the attention of contemporary science, is holographic in nature, the whole being mirrored in the parts. I wish now to turn to a ...
... called literals. It could also be noted that non-mechanistic reproducibility, that which engages the attention of contemporary science, is holographic in nature, the whole being mirrored in the parts. I wish now to turn to a ...
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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