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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... a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of a the real Caroline Rooney Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Decolonising Gender This innovative study challenges a possessive or colonising. Front Cover.
... a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of a the real Caroline Rooney Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Decolonising Gender This innovative study challenges a possessive or colonising. Front Cover.
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... colonising approach to questions of gender. Through an illuminating selection of cross-cultural readings from African and queer writing to a shamanistic Shakespeare, Decolonising Gender offers: • a way out of some of the current ...
... colonising approach to questions of gender. Through an illuminating selection of cross-cultural readings from African and queer writing to a shamanistic Shakespeare, Decolonising Gender offers: • a way out of some of the current ...
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... colonised areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on ...
... colonised areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on ...
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... 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 be.
... 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 be.
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... colonised subject. The second is from Fadwa Tuqan's autobiography and concerns the conditioning of her upbringing against which she had to rebel in order to emancipate herself as both a woman and a poet. 'I say he's a cannibal and he ...
... colonised subject. The second is from Fadwa Tuqan's autobiography and concerns the conditioning of her upbringing against which she had to rebel in order to emancipate herself as both a woman and a poet. 'I say he's a cannibal and he ...
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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