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Madness in black women's diasporic fictions = aesthetics of resistance /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Madness in black women's diasporic fictions/ edited by Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey.
Reminder of title:	aesthetics of resistance /
other author:	Brown, Caroline A.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 326 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mental illness in literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58127-9
ISBN:	9783319581279

Madness in black women's diasporic fictions = aesthetics of resistance /
Madness in black women's diasporic fictionsaesthetics of resistance /[electronic resource] :edited by Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 326 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora..

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.

ISBN: 9783319581279

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-58127-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

570089
Mental illness in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.M45 / M33 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 809.933561

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