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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Main Author: Scheherazade Khan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2021-03-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/5497
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