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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... reality of the feminine tends to be denied or disavowed, being considered as but the projection of cultural ideologies that are performatively acted out. In the latter position, the reality of femininity tends to be affirmed reactively ...
... reality of the feminine tends to be denied or disavowed, being considered as but the projection of cultural ideologies that are performatively acted out. In the latter position, the reality of femininity tends to be affirmed reactively ...
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... reality of the feminine. Conventionally, when not a signifier of the real, 'woman' has often been the signifier of loss, lack, absence and death. However, it may be said that this formulation serves to universalise and even make ...
... reality of the feminine. Conventionally, when not a signifier of the real, 'woman' has often been the signifier of loss, lack, absence and death. However, it may be said that this formulation serves to universalise and even make ...
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... reality beyond the linguistic utterance. In this, it exceeds the performative whilst also not functioning in a descriptive manner. Gans gives the example of the cry of 'Fire!' in the present immediacy of a fire. 4 Such a use of language ...
... reality beyond the linguistic utterance. In this, it exceeds the performative whilst also not functioning in a descriptive manner. Gans gives the example of the cry of 'Fire!' in the present immediacy of a fire. 4 Such a use of language ...
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... reality at stake. 7 However here, and with Gans's thesis in mind, Levinas is aptly perplexed by Heidegger's desire to cast ontological authenticity in terms of mineness. My book strongly resists the conflation of authenticity with ...
... reality at stake. 7 However here, and with Gans's thesis in mind, Levinas is aptly perplexed by Heidegger's desire to cast ontological authenticity in terms of mineness. My book strongly resists the conflation of authenticity with ...
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... reality of femininity in yourself is to turn round on yourself in a directing inwards of desire that could occasion madness. With respect to earlier points, the masculine blind spot may be said to be the study of the feminine through ...
... reality of femininity in yourself is to turn round on yourself in a directing inwards of desire that could occasion madness. With respect to earlier points, the masculine blind spot may be said to be the study of the feminine through ...
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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