Session Details
138. Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Novels and the Aesthetics of Resistance
Friday, 3 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 313, Hynes
A special session
Presiding: Caroline Ann Brown, Univ. of Montreal
1. "Sex, Text, and the Dissociative State: Calixthe Beyala's Reinscription of Neocolonial Cameroun's Gendered Depredations," Caroline Ann Brown
2. "Madness, Transfiguration, and the Translation of the Bones-as-Text in NourbeSe Philip's Experimental Zong!," Richard J. Douglass-Chin, Univ. of Windsor
3. "Words to Heal the Wounds: Amnesia, Madness, and Silence as Testimony in Haitian Women's Fiction," Johanna Xandra Kathryn Garvey, Fairfield Univ.
4. "Reading Shahrazade's Liberatory Translation of Harem Pathology in Paradise," Majda R. Atieh, Howard Univ.
For abstracts, write to caroline.brown@umontreal.ca.
Subject:
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Comparative Literature – Twentieth Century