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Madness in black women's diasporic fictions : aesthetics of resistance /
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, contribut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Cham, Switzerland] :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics
- Caroline A. Brown Part I: Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation Chapter 2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe
- Nancy Caronia Chapter 3. Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-text in Marlene NourbeSe Philip's Experimental Zong!
- Richard Douglass-Chin Chapter 4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Victoria Papa Part II: The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony Chapter 5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women's Fiction
- Johanna X.K. Garvey Chapter 6. Dark Swoops: Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun
- Seretha D. Williams Chapter 7. 'We Know People By Their Stories': Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak!
- Raquel D. Kennon Part III: Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm Chapter 8. Sharazade's Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise
- Majda R. Atieh Chapter 9. Magic, Madness and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring
- Caroline A. Brown Chapter 10. 'Recordless Company': Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl
- E. Kim Stone Chapter 11: Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures
- Johanna X.K. Garvey.