Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real - Rilegato

Libro 14 di 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Rooney, Caroline

 
9780415424189: Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real
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ISBN 10: 0415424186 ISBN 13: 9780415424189
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Caroline Rooney is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent. She is the author of African Literature, Animism and Politics (Routledge, 2000) and, with Vera Dieterich, of Book Unbinding: The Ontological Stain (Artworlds Press, 2005).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415424186
ISBN 13 
9780415424189
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
246
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9781138010604: Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

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ISBN 10:  113801060X ISBN 13:  9781138010604
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014
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