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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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Decolonising Gender This innovative study challenges a possessive or colonising approach to questions of gender. Through an illuminating selection of cross-cultural readings from ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Decolonising Gender This innovative study challenges a possessive or colonising approach to questions of gender. Through an illuminating selection of cross-cultural readings from ...
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of Book Unbinding: The Ontological Stain (Artworlds Press, 2005). POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of Book Unbinding: The Ontological Stain (Artworlds Press, 2005). POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration ...
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... Literature. The series comprises three strands. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a specialist readership. Published in hardback, titles include: 1 Magical Realism in West ...
... Literature. The series comprises three strands. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a specialist readership. Published in hardback, titles include: 1 Magical Realism in West ...
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... Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline Rooney 20 Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography David Huddart 21 Contemporary Arab Women Writers Anastasia Valassopoulos Postcolonial Literatures makes available in paperback important work ...
... Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline Rooney 20 Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography David Huddart 21 Contemporary Arab Women Writers Anastasia Valassopoulos Postcolonial Literatures makes available in paperback important work ...
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... Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline.
... Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline.
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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