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:
- a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist
theory
- an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and
female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine
- a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to
engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in
regard to the other
- a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and
postcolonial literatures
- a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of
postcolonial liberation theory
- a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the
humanities and the sciences.
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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