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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonising Gender Literature and a Poetics of The Real by Caroline Rooney
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:_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory_x000D_an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine_x000D_a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other_x000D_a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures_x000D_a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory_x000D_a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences._x000D__x000D_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._x000D_show more