Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions / Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (PDF)

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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the "madwoman" as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach.

The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.

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Caroline A. Brown is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is author of The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity (2012). Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, National Women's Studies Association Journal, and several other journals and edited collections.

Johanna X. K. Garvey is Associate Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA, where she was founding Co-Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Program in Black Studies: Africa and the Diaspora. She has published on Ann Petry, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Paule Marshall, Dionne Brand, Shani Mootoo, Patricia Powell, Maryse Condé, and others, in Callaloo, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, Textual Practice, Anthurium, and elsewhere. She is completing a book manuscript on Caribbean women writing diaspora.

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2017, 1st ed. 2017, 326 Seiten, Englisch
Herausgegeben: Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
ISBN-10: 3319581279
ISBN-13: 9783319581279
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2017

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