Chi Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-59892-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 143 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s to shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Virginia Woolf’s and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chi, Chienyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Aimé Césaire’s Insensé Réveil.- 2 Lu Xun’s ?.- 3 Virginia Woolf’s Tangled Forest.- 4 Conclusion Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Muroyi.

Über Autor(innen)

Chienyn Chi received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is working on her second book, .