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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... consciousness of the feminine • a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other • a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and ...
... consciousness of the feminine • a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other • a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and ...
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... consciousness of what unavoidably or undeniably is beyond the utterance. Gans argues that this ostensive use of language arises for humans so that they can warn each other of dangers and the particular danger that Gans is preoccupied ...
... consciousness of what unavoidably or undeniably is beyond the utterance. Gans argues that this ostensive use of language arises for humans so that they can warn each other of dangers and the particular danger that Gans is preoccupied ...
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... consciousness of what it does not contain. An ostensive use of language may be compared with the Levinasian usage of the grammatical form: il y a. According to Arthur Cools, for Levinas the il y a pertains to what precedes writing and ...
... consciousness of what it does not contain. An ostensive use of language may be compared with the Levinasian usage of the grammatical form: il y a. According to Arthur Cools, for Levinas the il y a pertains to what precedes writing and ...
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... conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the feminine can itself be feminising for either sex. A real consciousness or awareness of the feminine may itself be considered to constitute a feminine consciousness or awareness ...
... conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the feminine can itself be feminising for either sex. A real consciousness or awareness of the feminine may itself be considered to constitute a feminine consciousness or awareness ...
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. This book investigates how a consciousness of the feminine may arguably be a matter of a less repressed consciousness than is usual for self-centred and individualistic middle class ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. This book investigates how a consciousness of the feminine may arguably be a matter of a less repressed consciousness than is usual for self-centred and individualistic middle class ...
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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