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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... thing whilst the feminine blind spot may be considered to be an inability to locate the feminine in oneself. A way around these aporias is thus to attend to a consciousness of femininity as a matter of conscious of the other, other ...
... thing whilst the feminine blind spot may be considered to be an inability to locate the feminine in oneself. A way around these aporias is thus to attend to a consciousness of femininity as a matter of conscious of the other, other ...
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... thing as an authority figure who tries to naturalise ideals. What is interesting about the way in which 'The Death of the Author' privileges a performative theory of writing is that this is done so as to foreclose the mentionability of ...
... thing as an authority figure who tries to naturalise ideals. What is interesting about the way in which 'The Death of the Author' privileges a performative theory of writing is that this is done so as to foreclose the mentionability of ...
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... is a process not a thing; this is one of the main arguments of Beginnings, especially as I was also trying to demonstrate the connection between a text's materiality (as process) and the human effort expended on its behalf [ ... ] our.
... is a process not a thing; this is one of the main arguments of Beginnings, especially as I was also trying to demonstrate the connection between a text's materiality (as process) and the human effort expended on its behalf [ ... ] our.
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... thing. Rather, I merely wish to tackle some of what I have found to be the more questionable aspects of Derrida's generalisations of the spectral and the performative, in the hope of contributing to the debates he has initiated, and ...
... thing. Rather, I merely wish to tackle some of what I have found to be the more questionable aspects of Derrida's generalisations of the spectral and the performative, in the hope of contributing to the debates he has initiated, and ...
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... things have not been able to move beyond that point. The question of das Ding is still attached to whatever is open, lacking, or gaping, at the centre of our desire. I would say – you will forgive the play on words – that we need to ...
... things have not been able to move beyond that point. The question of das Ding is still attached to whatever is open, lacking, or gaping, at the centre of our desire. I would say – you will forgive the play on words – that we need to ...
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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