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Mountain, Chandra Tyler.

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Bodies of knowledge: Madness and power in Africana women's texts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bodies of knowledge: Madness and power in Africana women's texts./
Author:	Mountain, Chandra Tyler.
Description:	271 p.
Notes:	Chair: R. Brandon Kershner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3039799
ISBN:	9780493531960

Bodies of knowledge: Madness and power in Africana women's texts.
Mountain, Chandra Tyler.

Bodies of knowledge: Madness and power in Africana women's texts. - 271 p.

Chair: R. Brandon Kershner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2001.

This dissertation focuses on the representation of madness in the writings of women of Africa and the African Diaspora, more specifically the United States, the Caribbean Islands, and sub-Saharan Africa. It seeks to engage madness as a social text in African women's texts and cultures. While many critics have devoted attention to a Western construction of madness and madness in the literary texts of European and Euro-American women, there has been minimal attention to the same theme in Africana women's texts. It is the argument of this project that, in the texts contemplated, madness is often represented as an act of resistance and empowerment. This has tended to be a troubling concept for many Western thinkers since insanity is perceived as weakness and a result of loss of control; yet out of the novels of Africana women arises a theory of madness as empowering that speaks across cultures and waters. The project is divided into five chapters, which illuminate representations, manifestations, and activities of madness and "mad" characters, in the literature of Africana women.

ISBN: 9780493531960Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Bodies of knowledge: Madness and power in Africana women's texts.
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