Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

Name: Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
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By Chienyn Chi

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Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire's critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized's mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book's chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun's "A Madman's Diary," Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism-a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 164
Release Date:: 2025-07-01
Publication Date:: 2025-07-01
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3031598946
ISBN13:: 9783031598944
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 221 g
Height:: 148 cm
Width:: 210 cm
Thickness:: 10 cm

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