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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... Women Writing the West Indies, 1804–1939 'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us' Evelyn O'Callaghan 9 Postcolonial Pacific Writings Representations of the body Michelle Keown 10 Writing Woman, Writing Place Contemporary Australian and South African.
... Women Writing the West Indies, 1804–1939 'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us' Evelyn O'Callaghan 9 Postcolonial Pacific Writings Representations of the body Michelle Keown 10 Writing Woman, Writing Place Contemporary Australian and South African.
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Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. 10 Writing Woman, Writing Place Contemporary Australian and South African fiction Sue Kossew 11 Literary Radicalism in India Gender, nation and the transition to independence ...
Literature and a Poetics of the Real Caroline Rooney. 10 Writing Woman, Writing Place Contemporary Australian and South African fiction Sue Kossew 11 Literary Radicalism in India Gender, nation and the transition to independence ...
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... woman' has often been the signifier of loss, lack, absence and death. However, it may be said that this formulation serves to universalise and even make absolute what may be, more narrowly, specific instances of loss or lack. That is ...
... woman' has often been the signifier of loss, lack, absence and death. However, it may be said that this formulation serves to universalise and even make absolute what may be, more narrowly, specific instances of loss or lack. That is ...
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... woman is or of performing, theatricalising, ritualising femininity but of admitting 'there is femininity': not as a generalisation but according to the specific eventful occasion of awareness. In addition, Heidegger's notion of aletheia ...
... woman is or of performing, theatricalising, ritualising femininity but of admitting 'there is femininity': not as a generalisation but according to the specific eventful occasion of awareness. In addition, Heidegger's notion of aletheia ...
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... woman to be conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the feminine can itself be feminising for either sex. A real consciousness or awareness of the feminine may itself be considered to constitute a feminine consciousness or ...
... woman to be conscious of the feminine and that a consciousness of the feminine can itself be feminising for either sex. A real consciousness or awareness of the feminine may itself be considered to constitute a feminine consciousness or ...
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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