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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... Hand from the Hand' hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Site Gallery in 2005, and I am indebted to Vera Dieterich for the inspiration afforded by her work and for the opportunities to collaborate on it. These occasions have ...
... Hand from the Hand' hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Site Gallery in 2005, and I am indebted to Vera Dieterich for the inspiration afforded by her work and for the opportunities to collaborate on it. These occasions have ...
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... hands reach out for the object; but at the same time each is deterred from appropriating it by the sight of all the others reaching in the same direction [ ... ] The center of the circle appears to possess a repellent, that prevents its ...
... hands reach out for the object; but at the same time each is deterred from appropriating it by the sight of all the others reaching in the same direction [ ... ] The center of the circle appears to possess a repellent, that prevents its ...
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... hand, cut off from any voice, borne by a gesture of inscription (and not of expression), traces a field without origin – or which, at least, has no other origin than language itself, language which ceaselessly calls into question all ...
... hand, cut off from any voice, borne by a gesture of inscription (and not of expression), traces a field without origin – or which, at least, has no other origin than language itself, language which ceaselessly calls into question all ...
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... 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 reality ...
... 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 reality ...
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... hand, what seems to be at stake is the desire for social recognition of gay families, beyond legal formalities: well and good, this deserves support, but how extending that institution of private property to gay families will end the ...
... hand, what seems to be at stake is the desire for social recognition of gay families, beyond legal formalities: well and good, this deserves support, but how extending that institution of private property to gay families will end 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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