Josephs, Kelly Baker.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Part of the series New World Studies;New World studies.
Notes:

• 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.

Subjects:

• Caribbean literature (English) — History and criticism.
• Mental illness in literature.
• National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.

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