The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic
Agency and Identity in Madness
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https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.31.5497Abstract
The novels Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga break the silence surrounding Africana women’s intersectional experiences through the representation of madness that viscerally rejects the patriarchal, colonial and even literary burdens in the novels by unapologetically asserting hybridised identities.
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14-Mar-2021
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“The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic: Agency and Identity in Madness”. 2021. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 31 (March). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.31.5497.