Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / / Kelly Baker Josephs
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| Autore: |
Josephs Kelly Baker
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| Titolo: |
Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / / Kelly Baker Josephs
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism |
| Mental illness in literature | |
| National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Disturbers of the peace |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3507-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828295503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New World Studies