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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... means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A ...
... means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A ...
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... mean feminine sexuality. From a study of literary texts, it seems more apt to speak of a less specific joy-in- being and a freedom of spirit that may or may not be eroticised. To an extent, for I will also qualify this, a position ...
... mean feminine sexuality. From a study of literary texts, it seems more apt to speak of a less specific joy-in- being and a freedom of spirit that may or may not be eroticised. To an extent, for I will also qualify this, a position ...
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... mean there are no Middle Eastern realities that we would be capable of noticing and the fabrication of the Orient cannot simply be attributed to the authorless workings and internalised legitimations of language. Said, in the context of ...
... mean there are no Middle Eastern realities that we would be capable of noticing and the fabrication of the Orient cannot simply be attributed to the authorless workings and internalised legitimations of language. Said, in the context of ...
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... means constitutes my overall approach to deconstruction, if there could be such a thing. Rather, I merely wish to tackle some of what I have found to be the more questionable aspects of Derrida's generalisations of the spectral and the ...
... means constitutes my overall approach to deconstruction, if there could be such a thing. Rather, I merely wish to tackle some of what I have found to be the more questionable aspects of Derrida's generalisations of the spectral and the ...
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... mean by a holism (rather than monism) underlying the advent of difference: I see the term différance as pertaining not only to an economy of traces but to the flickering, fluid underlying connections between what is spaced apart. The ...
... mean by a holism (rather than monism) underlying the advent of difference: I see the term différance as pertaining not only to an economy of traces but to the flickering, fluid underlying connections between what is spaced apart. 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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