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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... of knowing what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded themselves a paradoxically privileged position in discourses that attempt to define the feminine, this would seem as to be because they might be able to claim.
... of knowing what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded themselves a paradoxically privileged position in discourses that attempt to define the feminine, this would seem as to be because they might be able to claim.
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... claim a certain retrospective, even if uncertain, knowledge of what may have been lost whereas those who do not undergo loss of the feminine could find it difficult to specify what of themselves, what of their overall state of being, is ...
... claim a certain retrospective, even if uncertain, knowledge of what may have been lost whereas those who do not undergo loss of the feminine could find it difficult to specify what of themselves, what of their overall state of being, is ...
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... creative writer, this could be seen as a retrospective colonisation of the origin, colonisation being such a belated claim to possession. That said, another possibility presents itself, and it is one that I would prefer to credit. It may ...
... creative writer, this could be seen as a retrospective colonisation of the origin, colonisation being such a belated claim to possession. That said, another possibility presents itself, and it is one that I would prefer to credit. It may ...
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... claim resonates strongly with Adorno's claim that it was the intellectual classes that paved the way for fascism.18 War cannot simply be explained by aggression for its militarism is thoroughly programmed and its operation takes the ...
... claim resonates strongly with Adorno's claim that it was the intellectual classes that paved the way for fascism.18 War cannot simply be explained by aggression for its militarism is thoroughly programmed and its operation takes the ...
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... Claim, Butler states that in coming to engage with Antigone with the displaced political status of Antigone in mind, she found herself surprised then to find how canonical readings of Antigone do not attribute a political significance ...
... Claim, Butler states that in coming to engage with Antigone with the displaced political status of Antigone in mind, she found herself surprised then to find how canonical readings of Antigone do not attribute a political significance ...
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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