Decolonising Gender by Caroline Rooney

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

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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ISBN 13 9781138010604
ISBN 10 113801060X
Title Decolonising Gender
Author Caroline Rooney
Series Routledge Research In Postcolonial Literatures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2014-07-17
Number of pages 252
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