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Title Madwomen in social justice movements, literatures, and art / editors, Jessica Lowell Mason, University of Buffalo, Nicole Crevar, University of Arizona
Published Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, 2023
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Contents Introduction / Nicole Crevar, Jessical Lowell Mason -- Part I. silencing the madwoman -- [Mad disruption] working for Shakespeare's sister, meditating on the madwoman / Jessica Lowell Mason 'University of Buffalo' -- 'Madness as a new kind of music': Janet Frame's literary soundscapes and ethics of 'Listening Otherwise' to women's experiences of electroshock in 'Faces in the Water' / Christina Foisy 'Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario, Canada' -- [Mad disruption] teeth: The madwoman in the conference / Erin Soros 'Simon Fraser University' -- Sub/versions: Interrogating the politics of madness in Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' / Sonakashi Srivastava 'Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India', Kritika Sharma 'University of Delhi, India' -- Madness as discipline: Policing interracial relationships in South African and Caribbean literature / Brittani Smit 'Arcadia University, South Africa' -- Part II. trauma and testimony of the madwoman -- [Mad disruption] a tendency to exaggerate: On the writing of 'Liar' / Nadia Steven Rysing 'artist' -- Mad time: On temporarily, trauma, hysterical figures, and liminal shifters in Adrienne Kennedy's 'Funnyhouse' / Nicole Ann Rizzo 'Indiana University Bloomington' -- 'The time had come for me to understand': Leonora Carrington and narrativizing the madwoman through traumatic testimony in 'Down Below' / Nicole K. Turner 'Georgia State University' -- [Mad disruption] the point of unravel / Janna Brown 'artist' -- Madly in love: Objectum-sexuality and the limits of legible subjectivity / Steve Scheurich 'Bowling Green State University' -- Part III. (re)defining the madwoman -- Neither 'mad' nor 'woman': Re-dressing identity politics in Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' / Chloe Leung 'University of Edinburgh, UK' -- We got a right to be mad: Haile Gerima's 'Bush Mama' and the mad black woman / Kyéra Sterling 'independent scholar' -- [Mad disruption] case study. embracing madness / Riley Clare Valentine 'Louisiana State University' -- The bleeding edge: Cutting, mad girls, and the asylum in young adult literature / Maria Rovito 'Penn State University' -- [Mad disruption] where these maps have led me / J.M. Gagnon 'Herstory Writers Workshop'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminist literary criticism.
Feminism.
Social justice.
Women in literature.
feminism.
Feminism
Feminist literary criticism
Social justice
Women in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Mason, Jessica Lowell, editor
Crevar, Nicole, editor
ISBN 9781648895845
1648895840