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Through an illuminating selection of cross-cultural readings from African and queer writing to a shamanistic Shakespeare, Decolonising Gender offers:  \n􀀂 a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory  \n􀀂 an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine  \n􀀂 a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other  \n􀀂 a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures;  \n􀀂 a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory  \n􀀂 a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across disciplines  \nNegotiating 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.  \nCaroline 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) .  \nPOSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES  \nEdited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonised areas, and will include material from nonanglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on postcolonial subjects. Routledge is pleased to invite proposals for new books in the series. Interested authors should contact Lyn Innes or Rod Edmond at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, or Routledge’s Commissioning Editor for Literature.  \nThe series comprises three strands.  \nRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a specialist readership. Published in hardback, titles include:  \n1 Magical Realism in West African Fiction  \nSeeing with a third eye Brenda Cooper  \n2 The Postcolonial Jane Austen You-Me Park and  \nRajeswari Sunder Rajan  \n3 Contemporary Caribbean  \nWomen’s Poetry Making style Denise deCaires Narain  \n4 African Literature, Animism and Politics  \nCaroline Rooney  \n5 Caribbean–English Passages Intertextuality in a postcolonial  \ntradition Tobias D-ring  \n6 Islands in History and Representation Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith  \n7 Civility and Empire Literature and culture in British  \nIndia, 1822–1922  \nAnindyo Roy  \n8 Women Writing the West Indies, 1804–1939  \n‘A Hot Place, Belonging To Us’Evelyn O’Callaghan  \n9 Postcolonial Pacific Writings Representations of the body Michelle Keown  \n10 Writing Woman, Writing Place Contemporary Australian and South African fiction  \nSue Kossew  \n11 Literary Radicalism in India Gender, nation and the transition to independence  \nPriyamvada Gopal  \n12 Postcolonial Conrad Paradoxes of empire Terry Collits  \n13 American Pacificism Oceania in the U.S. imagination Paul Lyons  \n14 Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific  \nReading history and trauma in contemporary fiction  \nSusan Y. 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