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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... School of English and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent. She is the author of African Literature, Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of.
... School of English and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent. She is the author of African Literature, Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of.
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of Book Unbinding: The Ontological Stain (Artworlds Press, 2005). POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration with ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of Book Unbinding: The Ontological Stain (Artworlds Press, 2005). POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration with ...
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... Politics Caroline Rooney 5 Caribbean–English Passages Intertextuality in a postcolonial tradition Tobias D-ring 6 Islands in History and Representation Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith 7 Civility and Empire Literature and culture in British ...
... Politics Caroline Rooney 5 Caribbean–English Passages Intertextuality in a postcolonial tradition Tobias D-ring 6 Islands in History and Representation Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith 7 Civility and Empire Literature and culture in British ...
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... contemporary fiction Susan Y. Najita 15 Writing Sri Lanka Literature, resistance and the politics of place Minoli Salgado 16 Literature of the Indian Diaspora Theorizing the diasporic imaginary Vijay Mishra 17 Secularism in the.
... contemporary fiction Susan Y. Najita 15 Writing Sri Lanka Literature, resistance and the politics of place Minoli Salgado 16 Literature of the Indian Diaspora Theorizing the diasporic imaginary Vijay Mishra 17 Secularism in the.
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... of authenticity with mineness for political reasons as well as philosophically. Being certainly cannot be made a possession of the self. Whilst I 8 note these possible tangents, they remain provisional and peripheral in.
... of authenticity with mineness for political reasons as well as philosophically. Being certainly cannot be made a possession of the self. Whilst I 8 note these possible tangents, they remain provisional and peripheral in.
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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