Decolonising Gender - 9781138010604
Taylor & Francis
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature \u2013 from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare \u2013 Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:\n\n--a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory \n--an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine \n--a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other \n--a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures \n--a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory \n--a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences. \nExploring current ideas of performativity in literature and language, and negotiating a path between feminist theory\u2019s common pitfalls of essentialism and constructivism, Caroline .
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