Disturbers of the peace [electronic resource] : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / Kelly Baker Josephs.
Material type: TextSeries: New World StudiesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780813935072
- 0813935075
- 810.9/9729 23
- PR9210 .J67 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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