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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... seem obvious or evident that some femininity is lost at male puberty, whilst femininity may be also culturally repressed. What is more enigmatic is the question of knowing what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded ...
... seem obvious or evident that some femininity is lost at male puberty, whilst femininity may be also culturally repressed. What is more enigmatic is the question of knowing what this femininity may be. If men traditionally have accorded ...
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... seems more apt to speak of a less specific joy-in- being and a freedom of spirit that may or may not be eroticised. To an extent, for I will also qualify this, a position emerges in which the masculine know of the feminine what they ...
... seems more apt to speak of a less specific joy-in- being and a freedom of spirit that may or may not be eroticised. To an extent, for I will also qualify this, a position emerges in which the masculine know of the feminine what they ...
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... seems to use the self-referentiality of the performative to deny not only the voice of the writer but a consciousness of the feminine, of the other, of the real. If he is indirectly seeking to make a case for a performativity of gender ...
... seems to use the self-referentiality of the performative to deny not only the voice of the writer but a consciousness of the feminine, of the other, of the real. If he is indirectly seeking to make a case for a performativity of gender ...
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... seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that Einstein speaks of is the hypocritical attempt to justify the war machine through what Adorno refers to as a 'jargon of authenticity' and what Srinivas Aravamundan speaks of as a ...
... seems to be at stake in the alienation from reality that Einstein speaks of is the hypocritical attempt to justify the war machine through what Adorno refers to as a 'jargon of authenticity' and what Srinivas Aravamundan speaks of as a ...
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... seems important to distinguish between the mechanically conformative and forms of the performative that may be considered to be theatrical and ironic.26 It may be said that what makes for this distinction is that in the former case ...
... seems important to distinguish between the mechanically conformative and forms of the performative that may be considered to be theatrical and ironic.26 It may be said that what makes for this distinction is that in the former case ...
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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