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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... difference as it were: however, this position should be modified for it does not adequately account for what we may know of the feminine, as will be explained further on. Given that femininity arguably entails a certain capacity for ...
... difference as it were: however, this position should be modified for it does not adequately account for what we may know of the feminine, as will be explained further on. Given that femininity arguably entails a certain capacity for ...
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... difference. In this book I do affirm the feminine real, however, my argument aims to avoid the pitfalls of essentialism. My assumption is that you do not have to be a woman to be conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the ...
... difference. In this book I do affirm the feminine real, however, my argument aims to avoid the pitfalls of essentialism. My assumption is that you do not have to be a woman to be conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the ...
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... difference between the author as a creative practitioner and authority figures. With this, he does not take into account in his essay the fact that creative writers have often written to contest the dogmas of authority and tradition. a ...
... difference between the author as a creative practitioner and authority figures. With this, he does not take into account in his essay the fact that creative writers have often written to contest the dogmas of authority and tradition. a ...
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... difference. This is what I mean by a holism (rather than monism) underlying the advent of difference: I see the term différance as pertaining not only to an economy of traces but to the flickering, fluid underlying connections between ...
... difference. This is what I mean by a holism (rather than monism) underlying the advent of difference: I see the term différance as pertaining not only to an economy of traces but to the flickering, fluid underlying connections between ...
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... difference. I also wish to address the possible ontological reality of the feminine, that which is beyond the performative, in terms of an ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The.
... difference. I also wish to address the possible ontological reality of the feminine, that which is beyond the performative, in terms of an ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The.
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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