Brown, Caroline A.
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics
Caroline A. Brown
Part I. Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation
2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo’s
Nancy Caronia
3. Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-Text in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Experimental
Richard Douglass-Chin
4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison’s
Victoria Papa
Part II. The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony
5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of
Johanna X. K. Garvey
6. “Dark Swoops”: Trauma and Madness in
Seretha D. Williams
7. “We Know People by Their Stories”: Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat’s
Raquel D. Kennon
Part III. Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm
8. Shahrazade’s Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison’s
Majda R. Atieh
9. Magic, Madness, and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor’s
Caroline A. Brown
10. “Recordless Company”: Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi’s
E. Kim Stone
11. Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures
Johanna X. K. Garvey
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, African American Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature, Gender Studies, American Culture, Contemporary Literature
- Editor
- Brown, Caroline A.
- Garvey, Johanna X. K.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
- Page amount
- 11 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319581279
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-58126-2