LEADER 03944nam 22006495 450 001 9910255089503321 005 20200630100042.0 010 $a3-319-58127-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-58127-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000001039726 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-58127-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5123300 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001039726 100 $a20171104d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMadness in Black Women?s Diasporic Fictions$b[electronic resource] $eAesthetics of Resistance /$fedited by Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 326 p.) 225 1 $aGender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora 311 $a3-319-58126-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 330 $aThis collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the ?madwoman? as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach. The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance. 410 0$aGender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aLiterature    606 $aSociology 606 $aUnited States?Study and teaching 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern?21st century 606 $aAfrican American Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411020 606 $aPostcolonial/World Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 606 $aAmerican Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411010 606 $aContemporary Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 0$aLiterature   . 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aUnited States?Study and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?21st century. 615 14$aAfrican American Culture. 615 24$aPostcolonial/World Literature. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aAmerican Culture. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a306.08996073 702 $aBrown$b Caroline A$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aGarvey$b Johanna X. K$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255089503321 996 $aMadness in Black Women?s Diasporic Fictions$92119201 997 $aUNINA