Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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.
| ISBN: | 9783030405335 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 220 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Ledent, Bénédicte O'Callaghan, Evelyn Tunca, Daria |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 18.12.2019 |
| Untertitel: | On the Edge |
| Schlagworte: | B Caryl Phillips Class Colonial Colonization Contemporary Literature Diaspora Ecocriticism Gender Jamaica Kincaid Junot Díaz Kei Miller Latin American/Caribbean Literature Literature, Cultural and Media Studies Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 Madness Marlon James Mental illness Merle Collins Neurosis Trauma Twentieth-Century Literature |
Bénédicte Ledent is Professor in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.Evelyn O’Callaghan is Professor of West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Daria Tunca is Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.