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Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real (Postcolonial Literatures, 19, Band 19) - Hardcover

Buch 14 von 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Rooney, Caroline

 
9780415424189: Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real (Postcolonial Literatures, 19, Band 19)

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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 current ideas of performativity in literature and language, and negotiates a path between feminist theory's common pitfalls of essentialism and constructivism.

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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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