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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... position, the reality of femininity tends to be affirmed reactively or retrospectively, as the reified negation of its negation. This book aims to consider how both positions may be seen as perhaps compromised by too literalising a ...
... position, the reality of femininity tends to be affirmed reactively or retrospectively, as the reified negation of its negation. This book aims to consider how both positions may be seen as perhaps compromised by too literalising a ...
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... what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded themselves a paradoxically privileged position in discourses that attempt to define the feminine, this would seem as to be because they might be able to claim.
... what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded themselves a paradoxically privileged position in discourses that attempt to define the feminine, this would seem as to be because they might be able to claim.
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... position emerges in which the masculine know of the feminine what they cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This ...
... position emerges in which the masculine know of the feminine what they cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This ...
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... position is the dispensing with authority when it could be contrarily argued that Barthes's advocacy of the performative may well serve to enable an authoritarian logic, even if unintentionally so (as is most likely to be the case). Let ...
... position is the dispensing with authority when it could be contrarily argued that Barthes's advocacy of the performative may well serve to enable an authoritarian logic, even if unintentionally so (as is most likely to be the case). Let ...
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... position themselves against certain strands of the masculine nationalist discourses of idealism and saviour-heroism through more realistic and down-to-earth approaches to the national struggle. Quoting Hanan Ashrawi, Schofield states ...
... position themselves against certain strands of the masculine nationalist discourses of idealism and saviour-heroism through more realistic and down-to-earth approaches to the national struggle. Quoting Hanan Ashrawi, Schofield states ...
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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