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Josephs, Kelly Baker.

Disturbers of the Peace Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature / [Recurso electrónico] : Kelly Baker Josephs. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - New World Studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Libro Electrónico

ISBN: 9780813935072 0813935075

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR9210 / .J67 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/9729