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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... conflation 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.
... conflation 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.
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. note these possible tangents, they remain provisional and peripheral in that Heidegger and Levinas tend not to engage with questions of sexual difference. In this book I do affirm the ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. note these possible tangents, they remain provisional and peripheral in that Heidegger and Levinas tend not to engage with questions of sexual difference. In this book I do affirm the ...
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... possible to consider depression conversely as a matter of excessive individuation, sublimation and idealisation as accompanies the loss of the feminine real, the loss of connectedness to the other, the excessive separation from ...
... possible to consider depression conversely as a matter of excessive individuation, sublimation and idealisation as accompanies the loss of the feminine real, the loss of connectedness to the other, the excessive separation from ...
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... possible ontological reality of the feminine, that which is beyond the performative, in terms of an ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The. episteme. is. out. of. joint: the. idealist ...
... possible ontological reality of the feminine, that which is beyond the performative, in terms of an ethics of the collective, that is, in terms of friendship, loyalty, solidarity: sumud. The. episteme. is. out. of. joint: the. idealist ...
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... possible co-originality of others or to thwart a potential sharing of sources. Antigone's supposed claim would seem to be an officialising speech act that linguistically – through 'grammatical possession' – actualises ownership ...
... possible co-originality of others or to thwart a potential sharing of sources. Antigone's supposed claim would seem to be an officialising speech act that linguistically – through 'grammatical possession' – actualises ownership ...
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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