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

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Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 11, 102, 128–29, 134, 142, 152, 181n22 Bleuler, Eugene, 110 Boyle, Mary, 110 Brathwaite, Kamau, 31, 72 Breslin, Paul, 95–96, 176n15 British Guiana, 23 Brodber, Erna, 20, 113, 119–42, 180n6, 181n22. See also Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home Brontë, Charlotte, 69, 75, 78–80, 82, 89. See also Jane Eyre Brown, Lloyd, 96–97, 179n62 Brown, Stewart, 146 Caliban, 50, 59–61, 64, 72, 77, 81 calypso, 33–36, 45, 168n25 Canada, 20, 21, 93, 144–45, 147–53 canon, Caribbean literary, 2, 6, 12–13, 22, 24, 71, 147 Caribbean aesthetic, 2–3, 13, 17, 93, 147, 163 Caribbean Discourse (Glissant), 11, 32, 35, 40, 93–94, 115–16, 168n21, 175n9 Caribbeanness, 71–72, 93, 112, 134, 147 carnival, 1, 143 Césaire, Aimé, 81, 92 Chariandy, David, 6, 17, 21, 144–49, 156, 182n4, 183n10. See also Soucouyant Chevannes, Barry, 48, 50 Christianity, 42, 50–52, 54, 66, 134–35 Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise (Cliff), 6, 74–75 “Clare Savage as a Crossroads Character” (Cliff), 75 Clark, Vèvè, 154, 183n14 Abel, Elizabeth, 70, 172n6 Abeng (Cliff), 6 abortion, 91, 124 Adjarian, M. M., 77 Africa: African literatures, 2, 12; and diaspora literacy, 154, 183n14; dreams of, 93, 95, 98, 102, 179n62; as homeland, 102, 146; references in literature, 51, 76; vs Europe, 102 African American, 123; vs Caribbean, 60, 130, 134 Afro-Caribbean, 50, 69 Ahmad, Aijaz, 47 allegory, 18, 47, 68, 117, 145 Alvarez, A., 71 America (United States), 21, 60, 116–17, 120–35 passim, 150–156 passim. See also African American Americanization, 21, 27, 34, 37 Anancy, 121–22, 135, 137, 180n5, 180n6 ancestral anger, 8, 10, 69–70, 134, 179n1 art: positive function of, 9, 35, 67–68, 172n33 Artaud, Antonin, 112 Ashcroft, Bill, 10, 184n20 asylum, 18, 50–51, 111–12 Athill, Diana, 80 Banana Bottom (McKay), 14–17 Barnes, Natasha, 59 Bedward, Alexander, 40, 48, 50, 52 Benitez-Rojo, Antonio, 12–13 Bertha Mason Rochester, 6, 69–80 passim, 85, 88–92, 107, 184n16 Best, Lloyd, 130 Black Power movement, 20, 102, 117 Index 188 Index 5, 11, 13, 20–22, 93, 144–63. See also postcolonial diasporas discours antillais, le (Glissant). See Caribbean Discourse displacement, 5, 26, 145, 156, 161. See also migration Dominica, 4, 11, 166n10; in Unburnable, 21, 145, 154–56; in Voyage in the Dark, 70, 91; in Wide Sargasso Sea, 155 Don Quixote, 98 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 66 Drake, Sandra, 78 drama (genre), 9–10, 19, 20, 46, 93–118, 175n9, 177n33, 178n55 Dream on Monkey Mountain (Walcott), 2, 6, 10, 19–20, 22, 41, 46, 71, 89, 93–118, 119, 177n31, 178n55, 179n66, 185n22 dreams, 76, 83, 88, 117–18, 121, 123, 175n3, 175n12, 179n62, 184n16; and madness, 19–20, 73, 76, 89–91, 94– 109, 117; representation of, 19–20, 76, 88–91, 93, 114–16, 178n55; visionary dreams, 52, 55–58, 63, 65, 103, 111, 144 Duncan, Hugh, 16 Edgell, Zee, 17 education, 17, 20, 29–30, 130–38, 140; abroad, 16, 129, 131; colonial, 101, 112, 132, 135, 137, 154. See also under class emancipation, 78, 179n1 Emancipation Day, 8 Emery, Mary Lou, 3, 82 Empire Writes Back, The, 10 Europe, 70–71, 146 European paradigms, 47, 49, 64–65, 87–88, 163; resistance against, 25, 68, 71, 82. See also under feminism; madness Fanon, Frantz, 11–12, 20, 107, 113, 116, 128–30, 144 Federation (West Indian), 3–4, 13, 165n6 Felman, Shoshana, 103, 126–27 feminism, 12–13, 59; anti-feminism, 19, 59; Caribbean feminism, 59–61; European feminism, 12–13, 60–61, 77; feminist literature, 12, 71, 113 “Fiction in the Scientific Procedure” (Brodber), 125, 128, 142 class, 23–30 passim, 48, 102, 163; and ancestral anger, 8; and education, 17, 20, 131–33; and language, 29; and madness, 11, 29, 112, 131; and religion, 144. See also intersectionality Cliff, Michelle, 6, 17–18, 52, 74–76, 92, 132 Coetzee, J. M., 92 colonization, 21, 26, 51, 79, 108, 113, 129, 137; reverse colonization, 163 Colson, Theodore, 115 comedy, 27, 30, 35, 38, 43 community, 17–19, 22, 45–49, 57–64, 67–68, 93–94, 115, 152; acceptance by, 14–15, 18, 26, 28, 55, 73; and healing, 41–42; defining madness, 9, 14, 18, 37–38, 152, loss of, 17, 140; pressures of, 9, 127, 129, 133, 140 Conrad, Joseph, 24, 42 Cooper, Carolyn, 136 Creole, 6, 69, 72–85, 91–92; white cockroach...