Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions : Aesthetics of Resistance.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Part I Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation -- Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe -- The Ethos of Madness -- A Maddening Discourse -- Recasting Time and Madness in the Global City -- Resituating the Word -- Bibliography -- Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-Text in M. NourbeSe Philip's Experimental Zong! -- Black Women's Voices as Fugue -- Syntactical Disruption as PoeticsPolitics of Transfiguration -- Gaps and Silences -- Zong!'s Challenging of the Boundaries of Genre -- Yoruba as the Transfigurative Written African Word -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- References -- Part II The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony -- Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women's Fiction -- I -- II -- III -- Bibliography -- "Dark Swoops": Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun -- Bibliography -- "We Know People by Their Stories": Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! -- I. Mad Writing -- "Everything Makes Me Mad": Danticat's Tropes of Madness -- On the Path Toward Healing -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm -- Shahrazade's Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Women as Harem: An Introduction -- Architectural Structures and Gendered Containment -- Of Communal Ovens and Cloistered Tongues: Ruby and the Male Harem -- A Western Ethos: The Convent as Harem? -- Shahrazade's Sisters: A Liberatory Pathology.

Polyglossia and Narrative Open-Endedness as Healing Strategies -- Bibliography -- Magic, Madness, and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Bibliography -- "Recordless Company": Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl -- The Mentors' Amnesiac National Allegories -- The Nigerian Games -- The English Games -- The Games in the Nigerian Bush -- Bibliography -- Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Bibliography -- Index.

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