Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 “Madness Is Rampant on This Island”: Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature  (Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Daria Tunca)....Pages 1-17
 “Kingston Full of Them”: Madwomen at the Crossroads  (Kelly Baker Josephs)....Pages 19-38
 “Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story”: Madness, Rage, and Literary Self-Making in Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid  (Denise deCaires Narain)....Pages 39-62
 Madness and Silence in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow  (Ping Su)....Pages 63-80
 Speaking of Madness in the First Person/Speaking Madness in the Second Person? Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”  (Delphine Munos)....Pages 81-102
 What Is “Worse Besides”? An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Literature  (Carine M. Mardorossian)....Pages 103-115
 Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother  (Rebecca Romdhani)....Pages 117-135
 Horizons of Desire in Caribbean Queer Speculative Fiction: Marlon James’s John Crow’s Devil  (Michael A. Bucknor)....Pages 137-160
 When Seeing Is Believing: Enduring Injustice in Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting  (Alison Donnell)....Pages 161-179
 Migrant Madness or Poetics of Spirit? Teaching Fiction by Erna Brodber and Kei Miller  (Evelyn O’Callaghan)....Pages 181-202
 (Re)Locating Madness and Prophesy: An Interview with Kei Miller  (Rebecca Romdhani)....Pages 203-212
Back Matter ....Pages 213-220