From: "Lawrence Phillips" <lawrence-AT-lphillips.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: madness and postcolonialism
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:20:53 -0000


I know this isn't a literary text, but do check our Franz Fanon's 'The
Wretched of the Earth' for his studies of the psychoses of the Algerian war
of Independance. It's very powerful.

Lawrence Phillips

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From: Joseph Flanagan III <flanagan-AT-odin.english.udel.edu>
To: postcolonial <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: 07 December 1998 19:55
Subject: Re: madness and postcolonialism


>I am teaching a class next semester that takes a transcultural approach to
>the study of madness and literature and am looking for likely candidates
>for inclusion on the syllabus. So far, I have been considering Bessie
>Head's __A Question of Power__, Jean Rhys's _WSS_, and Doris Lessing's
>_Briefing for a Descent into Hell_. Has anyone taught those particular
>texts, and does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks. Joe Flanagan
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