Black madness: Insanity, resistance and re-vision in African American literature.

Title: Black madness: Insanity, resistance and re-vision in African American literature.
Identifier: AAI3245091
identifier: 3245091
Creator: King, James Sterling.
Contributor: Adviser: Jon-Christian Suggs
Date: 2007
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, American | Black Studies
Abstract: This text and the scholarly project it represents will offer commentary on and analysis of characters found within African American texts who either go insane or manifest dysfunctional/asocial behavior within a larger communal structure. The project will attempt to label certain outcomes and actions carried out by these troubled characters as representing a form of resistance or tropic reaction to the overarching societal pressures that have contributed to the individual's instability. Within the texts I am considering, madness reflects an inability, social or biological, to cope with the pressures of modern life, and, a consequential capitulation to them. A substantial re-vision of this phenomenon of madness is necessary that will allow latitude in interpretation that may make possible re-readings of characters and circumstances as experienced by them within a specifically African American literary context.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

Media: Black madness: Insanity, resistance and re-vision in African American literature.