Decolonising gender : literature and a poetics of the real
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Decolonising gender : literature and a poetics of the real
(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 19)
Routledge, 2007
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Fukushima
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  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Through 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:
a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory
an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine
a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other
a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures
a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory
a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences.
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. From Monstrosity and Techno-Performativity to Sumud 2. What is Enlightenment? What is Enlightenment? What is Enlightenment? 3. Radiance or Brilliance 4. The Other of the Confession: The Philosophical Type 5. The Other of the Confession: Women of Zimbabwe 6. Shakespeare the Shaman 7. Sisters of Marx: A Conclusion
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