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

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness, and the Process of Nation Building 1 1 Manias and Messiahs: Man-man and the Madness of Miguel Street 23 2 The Necessity for Madness: Negotiating Nation in Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron 45 3 “Fighting Mad”: Between Sides and Stories in Wide Sargasso Sea 69 4 Shared Dreams and Collective Delirium in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain 93 5 “Claims to Social Identity”: Madness and Subject Formation in Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home 119 Epilogue: Madness and Migration in the New Millennium 143 Notes 165 Index 187 ...