This concept surveys poststructuralist and postcolonial feminist literary theory, covering écriture féminine (Cixous, Irigaray)—writing conceived as fluid, bodily, and resistant to binary logic and patriarchal representation—alongside Butler's theory of gender as performative and discursively constructed rather than essential, Sedgwick's analysis of the epistemological contradictions structuring modern sexuality, and postcolonial frameworks (Spillers, Said, Spivak, Gates, Bhabha, Young) addressing the discursive construction of race, empire, and the subaltern. It sits within literary criticism and theory, specifically the intersection of feminist theory, gender/queer theory, and postcolonial studies, extending poststructuralist methods (Derrida, Foucault, Lacan) to questions of embodiment, identity, and representation.
This concept surveys poststructuralist and postcolonial feminist literary theory, covering écriture féminine (Cixous, Irigaray)—writing conceived as fluid, bodily, and resistant to binary logic and p…