Disturbers of the Peace : Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature /

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Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, the author focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Josephs, Kelly Baker
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:New World studies.
Temas:
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Mental illness in literature.
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Maladies mentales dans la littérature.
Antillais dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Caribbean literature (English)
Mental illness in literature
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building
  • Manias and messiahs : man-man and the madness of Miguel Street
  • The necessity for madness : negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron
  • "Fighting mad" : between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
  • "Claims to social identity" : madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home
  • Epilogue : Madness and migration in the new millennia.

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