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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... me to listen. This book is dedicated to my father with my deep love and deep respect. He was the first one to understand what I was trying to say in it. Introduction Recent feminist theory has been much concerned with the.
... me to listen. This book is dedicated to my father with my deep love and deep respect. He was the first one to understand what I was trying to say in it. Introduction Recent feminist theory has been much concerned with the.
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... father-figure then appropriates the youthful self. Father as son, son as father, word made flesh. The desire for self-immortalisation in these fictions of the double reveals itself to be a death drive. Doubles commit suicide. This ...
... father-figure then appropriates the youthful self. Father as son, son as father, word made flesh. The desire for self-immortalisation in these fictions of the double reveals itself to be a death drive. Doubles commit suicide. This ...
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... father) who is said to efface or erase the outlaw brother, and the symbolic father who then presents himself to effect the absence of the sister, the feminine becoming 'death in life'. It is also said twice in Antigone's Claim, that ...
... father) who is said to efface or erase the outlaw brother, and the symbolic father who then presents himself to effect the absence of the sister, the feminine becoming 'death in life'. It is also said twice in Antigone's Claim, that ...
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... as the text could be drawn on further to support, is that a masculinised daughter-figure is to take the place of the father, patriarchal origin, serving to institute socially her own aberrant signifying chain. This 'manly daughter' is.
... as the text could be drawn on further to support, is that a masculinised daughter-figure is to take the place of the father, patriarchal origin, serving to institute socially her own aberrant signifying chain. This 'manly daughter' is.
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... father (whereby presumably nothing would change) but be capable of becoming (something like?) a father in social actuality: hence, possibly, Butler's semi-identification of Antigone with lesbian families. Maybe it is that, for the first ...
... father (whereby presumably nothing would change) but be capable of becoming (something like?) a father in social actuality: hence, possibly, Butler's semi-identification of Antigone with lesbian families. Maybe it is that, for the first ...
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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