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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... matter of interpretation without closure as to whether the feminine real is read literally, metaphorically or metonymically, this work will propose, reveal and explore an ostensive designation of the feminine real beyond the already ...
... matter of interpretation without closure as to whether the feminine real is read literally, metaphorically or metonymically, this work will propose, reveal and explore an ostensive designation of the feminine real beyond the already ...
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... matter of conscious of the other, other-consciousness. The feminine may be conscious of the feminine-other if not of a femininity 'in' the self (and there is a rather queer inflection to this that the third chapter will entertain). In ...
... matter of conscious of the other, other-consciousness. The feminine may be conscious of the feminine-other if not of a femininity 'in' the self (and there is a rather queer inflection to this that the third chapter will entertain). In ...
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... matter of a less repressed consciousness than is usual for self-centred and individualistic middle class subjects, as could be a question of freedom of spirit. As already indicated, it also sets in play the notion that this awareness ...
... matter of a less repressed consciousness than is usual for self-centred and individualistic middle class subjects, as could be a question of freedom of spirit. As already indicated, it also sets in play the notion that this awareness ...
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... matter of critique rather than an occasion for celebration given material inequalities and questions of power. It may be said, generally speaking, that what enables such a critique is a sense of the gap between lived realities and ...
... matter of critique rather than an occasion for celebration given material inequalities and questions of power. It may be said, generally speaking, that what enables such a critique is a sense of the gap between lived realities and ...
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... matter of liminality and thereby also connection for either sex, femininity may be deployed in a cross-border manner to contest delineations of the proper and property. Second, the masculinist positing of an explicitly or implicitly ...
... matter of liminality and thereby also connection for either sex, femininity may be deployed in a cross-border manner to contest delineations of the proper and property. Second, the masculinist positing of an explicitly or implicitly ...
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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