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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452521403321

Autore

Josephs Kelly Baker

Titolo

Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / / Kelly Baker Josephs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8139-3507-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

New World studies

Disciplina

810.9/9729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism

Mental illness in literature

National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.