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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... 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 cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while ...
... 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 cannot know in the present (a consideration implied by deconstruction) while ...
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... spirit. As already indicated, it also sets in play the notion that this awareness may be a matter precisely of our connection to others and to a reality that is fluid and uncontainable. Kelly Oliver's orientation in The Colonization of ...
... spirit. As already indicated, it also sets in play the notion that this awareness may be a matter precisely of our connection to others and to a reality that is fluid and uncontainable. Kelly Oliver's orientation in The Colonization of ...
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... spirit of the rejection of the sacrifice of existence to the excessive work demands of capitalism together with a desire for connection with the real, 'the beach'. I allude to May '68 because I wish to address Roland Barthes's famous ...
... spirit of the rejection of the sacrifice of existence to the excessive work demands of capitalism together with a desire for connection with the real, 'the beach'. I allude to May '68 because I wish to address Roland Barthes's famous ...
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... spirit: not just for women but for everyone. Or, that which we could call 'feminine' here is that which escapes colonisation by the properly masculine. Equally, it would be possible to conduct this debate in nongendered terms through ...
... spirit: not just for women but for everyone. Or, that which we could call 'feminine' here is that which escapes colonisation by the properly masculine. Equally, it would be possible to conduct this debate in nongendered terms through ...
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... spirits. Well, I or some of us do.30 Moreover, this sculpture may be said to offer an affective response to all manner of being and beings: a reception of the signatures of all things. Aristotle interestingly points out of Sophocles ...
... spirits. Well, I or some of us do.30 Moreover, this sculpture may be said to offer an affective response to all manner of being and beings: a reception of the signatures of all things. Aristotle interestingly points out of Sophocles ...
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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