Mad Fictions – Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in Af…
Mad FictionsPsychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature\nAuthor(s): Femi Eromosele\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836244776, 978-1836244776\nSynopsis\n---- available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.\n\n Mad Fictions is the first book to place African literature in conversation with mad studies and disability studies, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of how madness is represented in African fiction. Challenging dominant readings that reduce madness to a metaphor for collective suffering, Femi Eromosele insists that it is both a site of personal distress and a locus for social justice discourse.\n\n The book argues that the simultaneous ubiquity and invisibility of madness in African literary scholarship stems from the dominance of nationalist frameworks in the production of political legibility. It explores the way]
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