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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... presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonised areas, and will include material from non ...
... presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonised areas, and will include material from non ...
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... present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This would make femininity slip 2 elusively between the cracks of sexual difference as it were ...
... present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while the feminine 'know' femininity without knowing what they know, as Lacan asserts. This would make femininity slip 2 elusively between the cracks of sexual difference as it were ...
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... present immediacy of a fire. 4 Such a use of language is to alert us to what really is immediately the case without attempting to contain that reality within the linguistic formulation or assertion. It is precisely important that ...
... present immediacy of a fire. 4 Such a use of language is to alert us to what really is immediately the case without attempting to contain that reality within the linguistic formulation or assertion. It is precisely important that ...
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... (exclusively given in the first person and in the present tense) in which the enunciation has no other content (contains no other proposition) than the act by which it is uttered – something like the I declare of kings or.
... (exclusively given in the first person and in the present tense) in which the enunciation has no other content (contains no other proposition) than the act by which it is uttered – something like the I declare of kings or.
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... present. The fact that Barthes uses the simple present as a formula – 'I declare' rather than the present continuous 'I am declaring' – has certain implications. Language is thus cut off from the moment and process of its utterance in ...
... present. The fact that Barthes uses the simple present as a formula – 'I declare' rather than the present continuous 'I am declaring' – has certain implications. Language is thus cut off from the moment and process of its utterance 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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