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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... editions of these titles are also available, some published earlier in the Routledge Research strand of the series. Titles in paperback include: Postcolonial Studies A materialist critique Benita Parry Magical Realism in West African.
... editions of these titles are also available, some published earlier in the Routledge Research strand of the series. Titles in paperback include: Postcolonial Studies A materialist critique Benita Parry Magical Realism in West African.
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. A materialist critique Benita Parry Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a third eye Brenda Cooper The Postcolonial Jane Austen You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. A materialist critique Benita Parry Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a third eye Brenda Cooper The Postcolonial Jane Austen You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan ...
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... critique of theories of the performative and detailed readings of literary texts, particularly in terms of a poetics of the real, in order to explore how we may move beyond the difficulties that have just been outlined. In Western ...
... critique of theories of the performative and detailed readings of literary texts, particularly in terms of a poetics of the real, in order to explore how we may move beyond the difficulties that have just been outlined. In Western ...
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... critique for it constitutes certain commodification and fetishising of language. For Barthes, works of art are like commodities in that they appear mysteriously on the stage and appear to speak all by themselves owing nothing to ...
... critique for it constitutes certain commodification and fetishising of language. For Barthes, works of art are like commodities in that they appear mysteriously on the stage and appear to speak all by themselves owing nothing to ...
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... critique rather than an occasion for celebration given material inequalities and questions of power. It may be said, generally speaking, that what enables such a critique is a sense of the gap between lived realities and performative ...
... critique rather than an occasion for celebration given material inequalities and questions of power. It may be said, generally speaking, that what enables such a critique is a sense of the gap between lived realities and performative ...
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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