Literary madness in British, postcolonial, and Bedouin women's writing / by Shahd Alshammari.
Material type: TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (151 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443812948
- 1443812943
- Women's writing
- Women's writing
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale dans la littérature
- Literature & literary studies
- Psychology
- Cultural studies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Englisch
- Frauenliteratur
- Wahnsinn Motiv
- 809/.933561 23
- PN56.M45 A47 2016eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages141-146) and index.
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This book considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women writers. It readdresses the madwoman trope, opening up multiple sites of literary madness, examining places and spaces outside of the 'madwoman in the attic.' In particular, a transnational approach sets itself up against a Eurocentric approach to literary madness. Women novelists from the Brontës to the Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Arab writers Fadia Faqir and Miral al-Tahawy interrogate patriarchal societies and oppressive cultures. Female characters who suffer from madness are strikingly similar in their.
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