The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic
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 unapolog...
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description | 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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spelling | doaj.art-b9bee7ae1b774f2a94757772779f96b62022-12-22T16:20:00ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712021-03-013110.2218/forum.31.54975497The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the AtticScheherazade KhanThe 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.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/5497 |
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title | The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic |
title_full | The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic |
title_fullStr | The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic |
title_full_unstemmed | The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic |
title_short | The Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic |
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url | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/5497 |
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