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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... offers: • a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory • an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine • a platform for postcolonial and ...
... offers: • a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory • an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine • a platform for postcolonial and ...
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... Postcolonial Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline.
... Postcolonial Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy Decolonising Gender Literature and a poetics of the real Caroline.
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... offer both a critique of theories of the performative and detailed readings of literary texts, particularly in terms of a poetics of the real, in order to explore how we may move beyond the difficulties that have just been outlined. In ...
... offer both a critique of theories of the performative and detailed readings of literary texts, particularly in terms of a poetics of the real, in order to explore how we may move beyond the difficulties that have just been outlined. In ...
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... offer a critique of the self-referential postmodernist image as that which may actually serve to singularise history in the denial of the living histories of others. What further seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that ...
... offer a critique of the self-referential postmodernist image as that which may actually serve to singularise history in the denial of the living histories of others. What further seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that ...
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... offer suitable instances for an enquiry into the idea of reality as consciousness of reality (distinct from selfconsciousness). Whilst in constructivist terms, Judith Butler posits her logic of the performative in terms of the ...
... offer suitable instances for an enquiry into the idea of reality as consciousness of reality (distinct from selfconsciousness). Whilst in constructivist terms, Judith Butler posits her logic of the performative in terms of 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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