Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

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Disturbers of the Peace New World Studies J. Michael Dash, Editor Frank Moya Pons and Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Associate Editors Disturbers of the Peace Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature Kelly Baker Josephs University of Virginia Press Charlottesville and London A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. University of Virginia Press© 2013 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2013 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Josephs, Kelly Baker. Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / Kelly Baker Josephs. pages cm. — (New World Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8139-3505-8 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3506-5 (pbk. : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3507-2 (e-book) 1. Caribbean literature (English)—History and criticism. 2. Mental illness in literature. 3. National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature. I. Title. PR9210.J67 2013 810.9'9729—dc23 2013007094 For my parents, Ruby Baker and Bruce Josephs ...