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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... wish to appreciate together or exercise curiosity towards rather than appropriate in violent competition. 5 What does interest me is the use of language to express a consciousness of what it does not contain. An ostensive use of ...
... wish to appreciate together or exercise curiosity towards rather than appropriate in violent competition. 5 What does interest me is the use of language to express a consciousness of what it does not contain. An ostensive use of ...
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... wish to address Roland Barthes's famous essay 'The Death of the Author' which he wrote in the moment just prior to the student and worker uprising. It is important to emphasise that Barthes's essay precedes the moment of May '68 because ...
... wish to address Roland Barthes's famous essay 'The Death of the Author' which he wrote in the moment just prior to the student and worker uprising. It is important to emphasise that Barthes's essay precedes the moment of May '68 because ...
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... 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 also to confront some of ...
... 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 also to confront some of ...
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... wish to do in this chapter is first to explore how the widespread performative theory of gender depends on a pervasive logic of anthropocentric techno-rationality, a position that serves to generate a certain Calibanisation, or ...
... wish to do in this chapter is first to explore how the widespread performative theory of gender depends on a pervasive logic of anthropocentric techno-rationality, a position that serves to generate a certain Calibanisation, or ...
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... wish or desire that comes true whereby dreamy words turn into nightmarish realities. For example, Stevenson's Dr Jekyll, speaking of his and man's duality, wishes that he could attain a perfect singularity of being where this wish gives ...
... wish or desire that comes true whereby dreamy words turn into nightmarish realities. For example, Stevenson's Dr Jekyll, speaking of his and man's duality, wishes that he could attain a perfect singularity of being where this wish gives ...
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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