Madness in Black Women s Diasporic Fictions Aesthetics of Resistance 1st Edition by Caroline A Brown, Johanna X K Garvey ISBN 3319863282 978-3319863283

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ISBN 10: 3319863282 

ISBN 13: 978-3319863283

Author: Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey 

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, bothacknowledging 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.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics

2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe

3. Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-Text in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Experimental Zong!

4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women’s Fiction

6. “Dark Swoops”: Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun

7. “We Know People by Their Stories”: Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!

8. Shahrazade’s Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

9. Magic, Madness, and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Erna Brodber’s Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring

10. “Recordless Company”: Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl

11. Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures

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