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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Josephs, Kelly Baker
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Caribbean literature (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Antillais dans la litterature.
Maladies mentales dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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