1st Edition
Decolonising Gender Literature and a Poetics of the Real
By Caroline Rooney
Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
