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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... play the notion that this awareness may be a matter precisely of our connection to others and to a reality that is fluid and uncontainable. Kelly Oliver's orientation in The Colonization of Psychic Space is an important one, namely: 'We ...
... play the notion that this awareness may be a matter precisely of our connection to others and to a reality that is fluid and uncontainable. Kelly Oliver's orientation in The Colonization of Psychic Space is an important one, namely: 'We ...
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... play on words – that we need to know what we can do to transform this dam[n]-age into our 'dame' in the archaic French sense, our lady. Jacques Lacan, Séminar VII2 The episteme is out of joint. This work begins with such a fracture. In ...
... play on words – that we need to know what we can do to transform this dam[n]-age into our 'dame' in the archaic French sense, our lady. Jacques Lacan, Séminar VII2 The episteme is out of joint. This work begins with such a fracture. In ...
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... play, Antigone, Antigone is referred to by the chorus as the monstrous, raw, cannibalistic, 15 as in European racist discourses Africans sometimes are so designated. Butler also considers Antigone in terms of the unspeakable. At this ...
... play, Antigone, Antigone is referred to by the chorus as the monstrous, raw, cannibalistic, 15 as in European racist discourses Africans sometimes are so designated. Butler also considers Antigone in terms of the unspeakable. At this ...
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... play, threatening to become attached to some doers, who could not have done it, disowned by others who might have done it. The act is everywhere delivered through speech acts [ ... ] The only way that the doer is attached to the deed is ...
... play, threatening to become attached to some doers, who could not have done it, disowned by others who might have done it. The act is everywhere delivered through speech acts [ ... ] The only way that the doer is attached to the deed is ...
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... play itself, when Ismene says she will claim to have done the deed too, Antigone explicitly rejects this as mere performative rhetoric as opposed to committed, albeit unpublicised, activism: 'Who did the work? ... / I have no love for a ...
... play itself, when Ismene says she will claim to have done the deed too, Antigone explicitly rejects this as mere performative rhetoric as opposed to committed, albeit unpublicised, activism: 'Who did the work? ... / I have no love for a ...
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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