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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... Mothers of the May Square) where this essay has, in particular, the work of Catherine Grant in mind.20 This historical occurrence is being drawn on to make two points. First, it is often women who come to the fore to protest against ...
... Mothers of the May Square) where this essay has, in particular, the work of Catherine Grant in mind.20 This historical occurrence is being drawn on to make two points. First, it is often women who come to the fore to protest against ...
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... mother' or 'father', but – in this context of gay and lesbian families – what? A transsexual surgery of phallic mother and enwombed father? Is the desire to do away with gendered roles or gendered roles, or even both? Leaving aside ...
... mother' or 'father', but – in this context of gay and lesbian families – what? A transsexual surgery of phallic mother and enwombed father? Is the desire to do away with gendered roles or gendered roles, or even both? Leaving aside ...
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... mother as well as a father. The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion ... Such monsters never live long, it is said; one has never seen a prodigy of that sort cropping grass in a field. Two heads on one body do ...
... mother as well as a father. The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion ... Such monsters never live long, it is said; one has never seen a prodigy of that sort cropping grass in a field. Two heads on one body do ...
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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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