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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415424186
• ISBN13: 9780415424189
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"