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

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Author:: Caroline Rooney
Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Date:: Dec 01, 2007
Number of pages:: 246 pages
Binding:: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10:: 0415424186
ISBN-13:: 9780415424189

Overview

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.