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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... Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a third eye Brenda Cooper 2 The Postcolonial Jane Austen You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 3 Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry Making style Denise deCaires Narain.
... Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a third eye Brenda Cooper 2 The Postcolonial Jane Austen You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 3 Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry Making style Denise deCaires Narain.
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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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... Women Writers Anastasia Valassopoulos Postcolonial Literatures makes available in paperback important work in the field. Hardback editions of these titles are also available, some published earlier in the Routledge Research strand of ...
... Women Writers Anastasia Valassopoulos Postcolonial Literatures makes available in paperback important work in the field. Hardback editions of these titles are also available, some published earlier in the Routledge Research strand of ...
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... Women's Poetry Making style Denise deCaires Narain Readings in Postcolonial Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy ...
... Women's Poetry Making style Denise deCaires Narain Readings in Postcolonial Literatures offers collections of important essays from journals or classic texts in the field. Titles include: Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Andrew Bundy ...
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... Women authors–History and criticism. 2. English literature–History and criticism. 3. Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6. Feminist theory. 7. Performative (Philosophy) 8 ...
... Women authors–History and criticism. 2. English literature–History and criticism. 3. Femininity (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. 5. Realism in literature. 6. Feminist theory. 7. Performative (Philosophy) 8 ...
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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