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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... readings from African and queer writing to a shamanistic Shakespeare, Decolonising Gender offers: • a way out of some of ... reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory • a comparison of contemporary ...
... readings from African and queer writing to a shamanistic Shakespeare, Decolonising Gender offers: • a way out of some of ... reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory • a comparison of contemporary ...
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... Reading history and trauma in 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 ...
... Reading history and trauma in 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 ...
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... reading of Antigone that is to be engaged with in this section, where it could be pointed out that in the play, Antigone, Antigone is referred to by the chorus as the monstrous, raw, cannibalistic, 15 as in European racist discourses ...
... reading of Antigone that is to be engaged with in this section, where it could be pointed out that in the play, Antigone, Antigone is referred to by the chorus as the monstrous, raw, cannibalistic, 15 as in European racist discourses ...
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... readings of Antigone offered by Hegel and Lacan. As she observes, Lacan associates Antigone with an ineffaceable what ... reading works to reject. Butler writes: But consider that, pace Lacan, Antigone in standing for Polynices, and for ...
... readings of Antigone offered by Hegel and Lacan. As she observes, Lacan associates Antigone with an ineffaceable what ... reading works to reject. Butler writes: But consider that, pace Lacan, Antigone in standing for Polynices, and for ...
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... reading implies that Antigone is only opportunistically and callously faking compassion for the brother, outcast ... reading is his alignment of Antigone with the feminine (e.g. p. 36), and what Butler wishes to retain of his reading is ...
... reading implies that Antigone is only opportunistically and callously faking compassion for the brother, outcast ... reading is his alignment of Antigone with the feminine (e.g. p. 36), and what Butler wishes to retain of his reading is ...
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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