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Racialized and Gendered Madness: Decolonizing Psycho-Social Hysteria in African American and Postcolonial African Black Women's Fiction.

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Title/Author:	Racialized and Gendered Madness: Decolonizing Psycho-Social Hysteria in African American and Postcolonial African Black Women's Fiction./
Author:	Oates-Primus, Debonair .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-05A.
Subject:	African American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27548974
ISBN:	9781392707579

Racialized and Gendered Madness: Decolonizing Psycho-Social Hysteria in African American and Postcolonial African Black Women's Fiction.
Oates-Primus, Debonair .

Racialized and Gendered Madness: Decolonizing Psycho-Social Hysteria in African American and Postcolonial African Black Women's Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 256 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The black woman's narrative of madness and psycho-social hysteria is one that has been erased, eclipsed, commodified, and/or appropriated by dominant bourgeois white women's literature and feminist discourse. While Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf were writing about and personally experiencing madness, brought on by alienation, tyranny of spherical gender arrangements, repression of individualism and creativity, and the lack of self-sufficiency, black women writers were fighting for abolition, indigenous sovereignty, and civil rights. The alienation of bourgeois white women trapped beneath the patriarchal confines of elite society is the subject of some of feminism's most celebrated and seminal works. However, there is no literary genealogy that unpacks the causes of black women's madness.In this dissertation, I examine the necessary narrative strategies that contemporary, black women writers have deployed to reconstruct, re-conceptualize, and restructure madness as a production of psycho-social distress caused by the intersectional collusion of oppressive, institutional power structures. Additionally, I closely analyze the relationship between the cultural and socioeconomic conditions of the texts' protagonists and the degree to which those forces trigger their psychotic breakdowns. The literary texts that I analyze in this dissertation include the following three black women's texts: Toni Morrison's, an African American, Beloved (1987), Tsitisi Dangarembga's, a Zimbabwean, Nervous Conditions (1988), and Ntozake Shange's, an African American, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (1975).In order to fully understand black women's madness, I utilize black and post-colonial feminism. The legacies of chattel slavery, colonialism, indigenous patriarchy and contemporary capitalism that rely on black women as modes of production, commodify their reproduction, criminalize miscegenation, make them invisible victims of unchecked sexual violence and white male aggression and targets of misdirected ethnic male resentment are symptomatic elements of their cultural suffering and their madness. The racial politics of female madness within Western literature has not been explored expansively and this racialized exclusion ignores the intersectional causalities of black women's racial anxiety, cultural damage and their mental stability that terrorize their psyches and obstruct their self-definitions, delay their self-actualizations, and stunt their sexual awakenings.

ISBN: 9781392707579Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122686
African American studies.
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Black feminism

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