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Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

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Editors:
  1. Bénédicte Ledent

    1. University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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  2. Evelyn O'Callaghan

    1. University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

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  3. Daria Tunca

    1. University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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  • Examines a topic that has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts
  • Takes an original view of madness as a potential space of political, cultural and artistic resistance
  • Looks at a wide range of Caribbean texts, including recent work

Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. “Madness Is Rampant on This Island”: Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    • Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Daria Tunca
    Pages 1-17

  3. “Kingston Full of Them”: Madwomen at the Crossroads

    • Kelly Baker Josephs
    Pages 19-38

  4. “Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story”: Madness, Rage, and Literary Self-Making in Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid

    • Denise deCaires Narain
    Pages 39-62

  5. Madness and Silence in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow

    • Ping Su
    Pages 63-80

  6. Speaking of Madness in the First Person/Speaking Madness in the Second Person? Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”

    • Delphine Munos
    Pages 81-102

  7. What Is “Worse Besides”? An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Literature

    • Carine M. Mardorossian
    Pages 103-115

  8. Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

    • Rebecca Romdhani
    Pages 117-135

  9. Horizons of Desire in Caribbean Queer Speculative Fiction: Marlon James’s John Crow’s Devil

    • Michael A. Bucknor
    Pages 137-160

  10. When Seeing Is Believing: Enduring Injustice in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting

    • Alison Donnell
    Pages 161-179

  11. Migrant Madness or Poetics of Spirit? Teaching Fiction by Erna Brodber and Kei Miller

    • Evelyn O’Callaghan
    Pages 181-202

  12. (Re)Locating Madness and Prophesy: An Interview with Kei Miller

    • Rebecca Romdhani
    Pages 203-212

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-220
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About this book

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. 







                          

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Bénédicte Ledent, Daria Tunca

  • University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados

    Evelyn O'Callaghan

About the editors

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.






                            
 

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