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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... maintains the view that it is because the real is ultimately an undivided totality that this material/spiritual dichotomy arises on a cultural level. What is explored in relation to literary texts is how figures of the feminine are ...
... maintains the view that it is because the real is ultimately an undivided totality that this material/spiritual dichotomy arises on a cultural level. What is explored in relation to literary texts is how figures of the feminine are ...
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... maintains that an ostensive use of language arises in relation to this envy. He writes the following of the appropriative will and its forestalling: in violation of the dominance hierarchy, all hands reach out for the object; but at the ...
... maintains that an ostensive use of language arises in relation to this envy. He writes the following of the appropriative will and its forestalling: in violation of the dominance hierarchy, all hands reach out for the object; but at the ...
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... maintains: 'The inability to sublimate leads to depression and silence.'11 Whilst there may well be instances where this would be valid, it is also possible to consider depression conversely as a matter of excessive individuation ...
... maintains: 'The inability to sublimate leads to depression and silence.'11 Whilst there may well be instances where this would be valid, it is also possible to consider depression conversely as a matter of excessive individuation ...
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... 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 that I wish 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 that I wish to ...
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... maintains that the tense of the performative is the simple present. The fact that Barthes uses the simple present as a formula – 'I declare' rather than the present continuous 'I am declaring' – has certain implications. Language is ...
... maintains that the tense of the performative is the simple present. The fact that Barthes uses the simple present as a formula – 'I declare' rather than the present continuous 'I am declaring' – has certain implications. Language is ...
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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