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  title info:
    title: Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
    sub title: On the Edge
  name:
    name part: Ledent, Bénédicte.
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      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: O'Callaghan, Evelyn.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Tunca, Daria.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 220 p. online resource.
  abstract: This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of "madness" across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: "'Madness is rampant on this island': Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature" - Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O'Callaghan and Daria Tunca -- 2. "'Kingston Full of Them': Madwomen at the Crossroads" - Kelly Baker Josephs -- 3. "'Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story': Madness, Rage and Literary Self-Making in Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid" - Denise deCaires Narain -- 4. "Madness and Silence in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow - Ping Su -- 5. "Speaking of Madness in the First Person/ Speaking Madness in the Second Person? Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and 'The Cheater's Guide to Love'" - Delphine Munos -- 6. "What is 'worse besides'? An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Fiction" - Carine M. Mardorossian -- 7. "Performing Colonial Madness in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother" - Rebecca Romdhani -- 8. "Horizons of Desire in Caribbean Queer Speculative Fiction: Marlon James's John Crow's Devil" - Michael A. Bucknor -- 9. "When Seeing is Believing: Enduring Injustice in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting" - Alison Donnell -- 10. "Migrant Madness or Poetics of Spirit? Teaching Erna Brodber's and Kei Miller's Fiction" - Evelyn O'Callaghan -- 11. "(Re)Locating Madness and Prophesy: An Interview with Kei Miller" - Rebecca Romdhani.
  note: edited by Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Daria Tunca.
  subject:
    topic: Latin American literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: Latin American/Caribbean Literature
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  classification: PN843-846
  classification: 800.098
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Caribbean Studies
  identifier: 9783319981802
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98180-2
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    record creation date: 181123
    record change date: 20200122201319.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-98180-2