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Gender, madness, and colonial paranoia in Australian literature : Australian psychoses /
This book rethinks women's madness through a rigorous analysis of colonial paranoia. Arguing that colonialism produces a distinct cultural expression of women's madness, this book contends that it is the male characters of the novels who exhibit symptoms of colonial paranoia, as inheritors...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : made mad: women, madness and national culture
- The intelligible madwoman
- Theorizing the madwoman: gender, madness and colonialism
- National identity and colonial paranoia in The man who loved children
- Cannibalism and colonialism: Lilian's story
- Dark places and the white nation: colonial manliness
- Conclusions: Australian psychoses.