TY - BOOK ID - 31384322 TI - Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions : Aesthetics of Resistance AU - Brown, Caroline A. AU - Garvey, Johanna X. K. PY - 2017 SN - 3319581279 3319581260 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - United States KW - African Americans. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Literature. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - African American Culture. KW - Postcolonial/World Literature. KW - Gender Studies. KW - American Culture. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Literature KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Cultural studies KW - Study and teaching. KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Mental illness in literature. KW - Women authors, Black. KW - African diaspora. KW - Black diaspora KW - Diaspora, African KW - Human geography KW - Black women authors KW - Insanity in literature KW - Psychopathology in literature KW - Migrations KW - Literature . KW - United States-Study and teaching. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - United States—Study and teaching. KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Literature, Modern—21st century. KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31384322 AB - 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, 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. ER -