From: lkissoon-AT-chass.utoronto.ca Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Postcolonial literature and madness --Boundary (ID vCqj6zYfSuH2967dXdOljA) Hello Everyone, I am planning to write a final paper on Anita Desai and Marechera, preferably the latter, regarding ethnic identity and madness. Bessie Head also comes to mind. Do you think that for some "immigrants", alienation in their host country and a complicated sense of their identity (conflict within between what has been internalized vis a vis education, mass culture etc ie the hegemonic mainstream, and what has been learned culturally - indigenous) could lead to a type of madness? Or what is construed madness from eyes external and distant to the reality of the person that is 'alienated' etc. Sorry if this question or query is a bit hodgy....but I am trying to work out an angle to approach literature from a perspective similar to what I've tried to outline above. If anyone has any recommendations, suggestions for reading, either on madness, identity or ethnicity, literature, other authors dealing specifically with this topic, etcetera etcetera etcetera.... I'm all ears, well, eyes..... Thank you, in advance, Lynnette M. Kissoon University of Toronto --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --Boundary (ID vCqj6zYfSuH2967dXdOljA) RFC-822-headers: Received: from jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU (jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU) by mc.duke.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #16741) id <01IHA6GCBZFK003BHM-AT-mc.duke.edu> for RSikorski-AT-duccrtr; Thu, 03 Apr 1997 20:55:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from daemon-AT-localhost) by jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU (8.7.6/8.6.6) id TAA27139 for postcolonial-outgoing; Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:57:42 -0500 Received: from chass.utoronto.ca (lkissoon-AT-chass.utoronto.ca [128.100.160.1]) by jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU (8.7.6/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA66302 for <postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>; Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:57:37 -0500 Received: from localhost by chass.utoronto.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/940406.SGI) for <postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> id TAA13882; Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:55:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:55:53 -0500 (EST) From: Lynnette Kissoon <lkissoon-AT-chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Postcolonial literature and madness In-reply-to: <9704032340.AA27514-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au> Sender: owner-postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Reply-to: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Message-id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970403194955.8381B-100000-AT-chass.utoronto.ca> Precedence: bulk --Boundary (ID vCqj6zYfSuH2967dXdOljA)-- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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