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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... nature, land, the body, and so on, and to the real in a more mystical sense as may be found in certain Lacanian accounts of femininity and strands of feminism concerned with the feminine divine.1 This work maintains the view that it is ...
... nature, land, the body, and so on, and to the real in a more mystical sense as may be found in certain Lacanian accounts of femininity and strands of feminism concerned with the feminine divine.1 This work maintains the view that it is ...
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... be used to facilitate auto-legitimations that are beyond challenge and to promote 'conformativity'. And, simply speaking, a writer who may work to idealise nature – or to give form to soma and affect – is not the same.
... be used to facilitate auto-legitimations that are beyond challenge and to promote 'conformativity'. And, simply speaking, a writer who may work to idealise nature – or to give form to soma and affect – is not the same.
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... nature' is not, is not mortal nature, that is. The inverted lesson of the double is that what is taken to be merely dead or deadly is in truth what makes for life. A literature of the double is not only a fiction.
... nature' is not, is not mortal nature, that is. The inverted lesson of the double is that what is taken to be merely dead or deadly is in truth what makes for life. A literature of the double is not only a fiction.
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... nature, the whole being mirrored in the parts. I wish now to turn to a consideration of how what has been raised so far might be considered in terms of the ways in which an idealising-literalising logic continues to replicate itself in ...
... nature, the whole being mirrored in the parts. I wish now to turn to a consideration of how what has been raised so far might be considered in terms of the ways in which an idealising-literalising logic continues to replicate itself in ...
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... natural beings, is the only monstrosity as the deformative difference of a single origin. After I had published this critique of Antigone's Claim in its initial version, Butler produced a work entitled: Undoing Gender.29 Is that ...
... natural beings, is the only monstrosity as the deformative difference of a single origin. After I had published this critique of Antigone's Claim in its initial version, Butler produced a work entitled: Undoing Gender.29 Is that ...
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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