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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... references (p. ). 1. African literature (English)–Women authors–History and criticism. 2. English literature–History and criticism. 3. Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6 ...
... references (p. ). 1. African literature (English)–Women authors–History and criticism. 2. English literature–History and criticism. 3. Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6 ...
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... reference to the colonised subject. The second is from Fadwa Tuqan's autobiography and concerns the conditioning of her upbringing against which she had to rebel in order to emancipate herself as both a woman and a poet. 'I say he's a ...
... reference to the colonised subject. The second is from Fadwa Tuqan's autobiography and concerns the conditioning of her upbringing against which she had to rebel in order to emancipate herself as both a woman and a poet. 'I say he's a ...
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... reference to the figure of the double, the döppelganger. 'Qui parmi nous n'est pas un homo duplex?' 8 writes Baudelaire. Who, amongst us, is not a double? If we are all doubles, this is obviously not literally the case, but only true in ...
... reference to the figure of the double, the döppelganger. 'Qui parmi nous n'est pas un homo duplex?' 8 writes Baudelaire. Who, amongst us, is not a double? If we are all doubles, this is obviously not literally the case, but only true in ...
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... reference to the Lacanian and Hegelian readings of Antigone, I came to approach Butler's use of Antigone with some curiosity as to whether it would reflect or accord with an anti-colonial logic or site of resistance as regards the anti ...
... reference to the Lacanian and Hegelian readings of Antigone, I came to approach Butler's use of Antigone with some curiosity as to whether it would reflect or accord with an anti-colonial logic or site of resistance as regards the anti ...
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... reference to their styles. Hall's text is very earnest in style and deeply pious: the serious, filial style of virtuous man or the virtually true man, although the text also fails in its being serious and thus becomes amusingly camp or ...
... reference to their styles. Hall's text is very earnest in style and deeply pious: the serious, filial style of virtuous man or the virtually true man, although the text also fails in its being serious and thus becomes amusingly camp or ...
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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