Decolonising Gender : (Record no. 6720)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781138010604 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
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| Classification number | 820.992 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Rooney, Caroline |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Decolonising Gender : |
| Remainder of title | Literature and a Poetics of the Real / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Caroline Rooney |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Routledge, |
| Year of publication | ©2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 246p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 |
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| Summary, etc | 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:<br/><br/><br/>a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory<br/>an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine<br/>a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other<br/>a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures<br/>a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory<br/>a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences.<br/>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. |
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| Topical Term | Postcolonialism in Literature |
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| Topical Term | Feminist Theory |
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| Topical Term | Realism in Literature |
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| Humanities | Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati | Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati | General Stacks | 11/11/2025 | Creative Books | 3774.95 | CB/25128 | 820.992 RooD (11753) | 11753 | Copy 01 | 5392.78 | 11/11/2025 | Books |