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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... go to: Maggie Awadalla, Ouamar Azerradj, Jennie Batchelor, Karoly and Vessela Borossa, Glenn Bowman; Becky and David Clarke, Jo Collins, Elizabeth Cowie, Rana Dayoub, Rod Edmond, Mary Evans, Neil Gascoigne, Mary Golubeva, Ben Grant ...
... go to: Maggie Awadalla, Ouamar Azerradj, Jennie Batchelor, Karoly and Vessela Borossa, Glenn Bowman; Becky and David Clarke, Jo Collins, Elizabeth Cowie, Rana Dayoub, Rod Edmond, Mary Evans, Neil Gascoigne, Mary Golubeva, Ben Grant ...
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... go so far as to maintain that, if anything, this text could be part of what the students may have been reacting against as regards the hyper-imperative of a capitalist performativity felt to be claustrophobic and suffocating. The reason ...
... go so far as to maintain that, if anything, this text could be part of what the students may have been reacting against as regards the hyper-imperative of a capitalist performativity felt to be claustrophobic and suffocating. The reason ...
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... goes on to state: 'a text is a process not a thing; this is one of the main arguments of Beginnings, especially as I was also trying to demonstrate the connection between a text's materiality (as process) and the human effort expended ...
... goes on to state: 'a text is a process not a thing; this is one of the main arguments of Beginnings, especially as I was also trying to demonstrate the connection between a text's materiality (as process) and the human effort expended ...
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... go hand in hand with an account of conquest, the creation of instruments of domination, and techniques of surveillance that were rooted not in theory but in actual territory.'16 Thus, a performative politics that would admit to no ...
... go hand in hand with an account of conquest, the creation of instruments of domination, and techniques of surveillance that were rooted not in theory but in actual territory.'16 Thus, a performative politics that would admit to no ...
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... go on endlessly. The sense of an alterity beyond culture, pushing and pulling it out of shape, permits us to escape the cultural determinism and the cycle of repetition.32 I tend to agree with this broad assessment as my first chapter ...
... go on endlessly. The sense of an alterity beyond culture, pushing and pulling it out of shape, permits us to escape the cultural determinism and the cycle of repetition.32 I tend to agree with this broad assessment as my first chapter ...
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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