Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature /
Josephs, Kelly Baker.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs: man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness: negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad": between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity": madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa will soon come home -- Epilogue: Madness and migration in the new millennia.
Caribbean literature (English)
Mental illness in literature.
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.