Madness In Black Women S Diasporic Fictions
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Madness In Black Women S Diasporic Fictions
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Author : Caroline A. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-04
Madness In Black Women S Diasporic Fictions written by Caroline A. Brown and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-04 with Social Science categories.
This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach. The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.
Madness In Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Author : Bénédicte Ledent
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-23
Madness In Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Bénédicte Ledent and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Black Madness
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Author : Therí Alyce Pickens
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Black Madness written by Therí Alyce Pickens and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Diasporic Conversations
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Author : Hershini Bhana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Diasporic Conversations written by Hershini Bhana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African fiction categories.
Haunting Capital
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Author : Hershini Bhana Young
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2006
Haunting Capital written by Hershini Bhana Young and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora "so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element." Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models. Instead, Young explores the notion of injury as a collective wounding, resulting from the trauma of capitalistic regimes such as slavery and colonialism. She also introduces the idea of the ghost to her discussion of collective injury, where it functions not only on theoretical and metaphorical levels, but also by invoking African cosmologies in which ghosts are ancestral beings with a real spiritual presence. More specifically, Young insists on the contemporary reality of African nations and eschews the presentation of Africa as a vague, undifferentiated point of origin that characterizes many other studies of the African diaspora. Her reading of African contemporary novels by women, alongside African American and Caribbean novels, works to show the African diaspora as haunted by similar, though different, issues of gendered and racialized violence.
Madness Psychiatry And Empire In Postcolonial Literature
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Author : Chienyn Chi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Madness Psychiatry And Empire In Postcolonial Literature written by Chienyn Chi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
African Diasporic Women S Narratives
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Author : Simone A. James Alexander
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2014-06-03
African Diasporic Women S Narratives written by Simone A. James Alexander and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
African Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Scholarship – Honorable Mention Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a migratory process often forced upon them by men or patriarchal society. Through in-depth study of selective texts by Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, and Grace Nichols, Alexander challenges the stereotypes ascribed to black female sexuality, subverting its assumed definition as diseased, passive, or docile. She also addresses issues of embodiment as she analyses how women’s bodies are read and seen; how bodies “perform” and are performed upon; how they challenge and disrupt normative standards. A multifaceted contribution to studies of gender, race, sexuality and disability issues, African Diasporic Women’s Narratives engages with a range of issues as it grapples with the complex interconnectedness of geography, citizenship, and nationalism.
Edwidge Danticat
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-05-18
Edwidge Danticat written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children's and YA author, she is also an activist, op-ed and cinema writer, and keynote speaker. Much of her work introduces the world to the cultural uniqueness of Haiti, the first black republic, and the elements of African heritage, language, and Vodou that continue to color all aspects of the island's art and self-expression. This companion provides an in-depth look into the world and writings of Danticat through A-Z entries. These entries cover both her works and the prevalent themes of her writing, including colonialism, slavery, superstition, adaptation, dreams and coming of age. It also provides a biography of Danticat, a list of 32 aphorisms from her fiction, a guide to the names and histories of the real places in her fiction, lesson planning aids, and a robust glossary offering translations and definitions for the many Creole, French, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and Taino terms in Danticat's writing.
Women S Work
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Author : Courtney Thorsson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Women S Work written by Courtney Thorsson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced by their characters as "women's work"—that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post–Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women's work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Magical Realism In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Richard Perez
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-30
The Palgrave Handbook Of Magical Realism In The Twenty First Century written by Richard Perez and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.