Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
On the Edge
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 an…
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Weitere Autoren: Tunca, Daria (Hrsg.) / Ledent, Bénédicte (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-98180-2
- EAN: 9783319981802
- Produktnummer: 29407050
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'941 KB
Über den Autor
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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