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Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean by Valerie Orlando (Paperback, 2002)

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Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean. To find out why there are so many suffocated hearts and tortured souls in this literature, Valerie Orlando here closely reads the work of Aminata Sow Fall, Mariama Ba, Myrian Warner-Vieyra and Simone Schwarz-Bart, among others. In these women's novels, Orlando finds, madness is the manifestation of a rent identity; this study thus is one that interrogates the nature of that identity. Francophone women novelists of Africa and the Caribbean - though they come from countries whose unique experiences of colonialism, revolution and postcolonial regimes have shaped specific and discrete cultures - express a common search for a meaningful relationship between their experience as women to the history and destiny of their nations. Only when woman is understood not as an ahistorical object but as a subject whose lived body is entwined with political, cultural and economic structures, Orlando argues, will insanity finally give way to clarity of being.

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Lexington Books
ISBN-13
9780739105634
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95915615

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Book Title
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean
Author
Valerie Orlando
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
216 Pages

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230mm
Item Width
151mm
Item Weight
304g

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Valerie Orlando
Series Title
After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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United States

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