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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... 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 postcolonial literatures; • a ...
... 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 postcolonial literatures; • a ...
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. feminine real / Caroline Rooney. p. cm. – (Postcolonial ... Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6. Feminist theory. 7 ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. feminine real / Caroline Rooney. p. cm. – (Postcolonial ... Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6. Feminist theory. 7 ...
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... feminine are literalised in their performative enactment. And, in the case of essentialism, the signification of femininity is taken to equate literally or in a constative manner with what is signified. This work will offer both a ...
... feminine are literalised in their performative enactment. And, in the case of essentialism, the signification of femininity is taken to equate literally or in a constative manner with what is signified. This work will offer both a ...
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... feminine real beyond the already widely considered performative modes of femininity. In order to address what is at stake in this ostensive gesture, it is necessary to confront the resistance towards the positing of a reality of the ...
... feminine real beyond the already widely considered performative modes of femininity. In order to address what is at stake in this ostensive gesture, it is necessary to confront the resistance towards the positing of a reality of the ...
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... feminine what they cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This would make femininity slip 2 elusively between the ...
... feminine what they cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This would make femininity slip 2 elusively 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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