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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... ethics and politics of emancipation. I regard these positions inter-implicated. In feminist terms, both Carrie Hull and Catherine Belsey critique constructivist feminism through an appeal to the real, and my work may thus be considered ...
... ethics and politics of emancipation. I regard these positions inter-implicated. In feminist terms, both Carrie Hull and Catherine Belsey critique constructivist feminism through an appeal to the real, and my work may thus be considered ...
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... ethical enquiry the simple relation between man and woman. Strangely enough, things have not been able to move beyond that point. The question of das Ding is still attached to whatever is open, lacking, or gaping, at the centre of our ...
... ethical enquiry the simple relation between man and woman. Strangely enough, things have not been able to move beyond that point. The question of das Ding is still attached to whatever is open, lacking, or gaping, at the centre of our ...
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... ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The. episteme. is. out. of. joint: the. idealist-literalist. continuum. Signatures of all things I am here to read James Joyce, Ulysses5 De Signatura ...
... ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The. episteme. is. out. of. joint: the. idealist-literalist. continuum. Signatures of all things I am here to read James Joyce, Ulysses5 De Signatura ...
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... ethical condition of the potential for the co-existence of what cannot be standardised. Antigone's Claim begins with what sounds like an emphatic claiming of Antigone. In less than two pages we get: 'I began to think about Antigone, as ...
... ethical condition of the potential for the co-existence of what cannot be standardised. Antigone's Claim begins with what sounds like an emphatic claiming of Antigone. In less than two pages we get: 'I began to think about Antigone, as ...
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... ethics of capitalism. Hegel introduces the question as follows: 'Suppose the question is: Ought it to be an absolute law that there should be property?' 22 Just 'Suppose'? His discussion of absolute laws, the conflict between the ...
... ethics of capitalism. Hegel introduces the question as follows: 'Suppose the question is: Ought it to be an absolute law that there should be property?' 22 Just 'Suppose'? His discussion of absolute laws, the conflict between 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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