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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... seen as perhaps compromised by too literalising a logic. In the case of constructivism, ideas, ideals and norms of the feminine are literalised in their performative enactment. And, in the case of essentialism, the signification of ...
... seen as perhaps compromised by too literalising a logic. In the case of constructivism, ideas, ideals and norms of the feminine are literalised in their performative enactment. And, in the case of essentialism, the signification of ...
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... seen to treat of depression or melancholia precisely in terms of a loss of connection with the real, and will unfold this understanding in the sixth chapter of this book. Oliver treats of an alienated Western (American) society in which ...
... seen to treat of depression or melancholia precisely in terms of a loss of connection with the real, and will unfold this understanding in the sixth chapter of this book. Oliver treats of an alienated Western (American) society in which ...
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... writer, this could be seen as a retrospective colonisation of the origin, colonisation being such a belated claim to possession. That said, another possibility presents itself, and it is one that I would prefer to credit. It may be.
... writer, this could be seen as a retrospective colonisation of the origin, colonisation being such a belated claim to possession. That said, another possibility presents itself, and it is one that I would prefer to credit. It may be.
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... seen in such a way. Some years later, I had another conversation about Shona sculpture, this time with a European sculptress. She, too, said she found this sculpture unsettling because she, she too, saw it as monstrous. 'How so?' I ...
... seen in such a way. Some years later, I had another conversation about Shona sculpture, this time with a European sculptress. She, too, said she found this sculpture unsettling because she, she too, saw it as monstrous. 'How so?' I ...
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... seen, my concern with this is that Antigone may pertain to what cannot be personalised or privatised, a broad question of collective existence. Butler begins her exploration of Antigone through attending to what she calls 'Antigone's ...
... seen, my concern with this is that Antigone may pertain to what cannot be personalised or privatised, a broad question of collective existence. Butler begins her exploration of Antigone through attending to what she calls 'Antigone's ...
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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