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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... serve to refer to the real as something beyond them or whether the real is perceived as, in part, feminine. While it ... serves to universalise and even make absolute what may be, more narrowly, specific instances of loss or lack. That ...
... serve to refer to the real as something beyond them or whether the real is perceived as, in part, feminine. While it ... serves to universalise and even make absolute what may be, more narrowly, specific instances of loss or lack. That ...
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... serves to introduce J.L. Austin's philosophy of the performative into French theory which in turn has had its considerable impact on the popular uptake of the performative within the American theoretical humanities. What Barthes writes ...
... serves to introduce J.L. Austin's philosophy of the performative into French theory which in turn has had its considerable impact on the popular uptake of the performative within the American theoretical humanities. What Barthes writes ...
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... serve to enable an authoritarian logic, even if unintentionally so (as is most likely to be the case). Let us, then, deconstruct. In the above, Barthes emphasises a sovereignty of language, especially of the first person, the ...
... serve to enable an authoritarian logic, even if unintentionally so (as is most likely to be the case). Let us, then, deconstruct. In the above, Barthes emphasises a sovereignty of language, especially of the first person, the ...
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... serve to critique a constative essentialism in significant ways but it is not thereby necessarily emancipatory. As I have begun to indicate, the performative can be used to facilitate auto-legitimations that are beyond challenge and to ...
... serve to critique a constative essentialism in significant ways but it is not thereby necessarily emancipatory. As I have begun to indicate, the performative can be used to facilitate auto-legitimations that are beyond challenge and to ...
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... served Barthes's purpose but I think it is telling that he chooses this very one. He 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 ...
... served Barthes's purpose but I think it is telling that he chooses this very one. He 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 ...
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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