Critical Conditions: Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing theorizes the unique interplay between history, science, the body, identity and writing that occurs in African and Caribbean Francophone women's writing from 1968-2003. These writings, it argues, disclose figures of illness and disability in the postcolonial context that challenge standard paradigms of women's bodily and psychic health established by Western colonial medicine and racial biology such as those that idealize cure, demand normativity, and assign tragedy to the "unhealthy."
Critical Conditions: Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing theorizes the unique interplay between history, science, the body, identity and writing that occurs in African and Caribbean Francophone women's writing from 1968-2003. These writings, it argues, disclose figures of illness and disability in the postcolonial context that challenge standard paradigms of women's bodily and psychic health established by Western colonial medicine and racial biology such as those that idealize cure, demand normativity, and assign tragedy to the "unhealthy."Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Julie Nack Ngue is assistant professor of French (teaching) at the University of Southern California. She is a contributor to journals such as Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies and to the book collection Emergent Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices (Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier and Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, eds, 2009).
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Acknowledgments Chapter 1: "Staring Back": Visible Difference, Staring, and Uncertain Legibility in Marie Chauvet's Amour and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane Chapter 2: The Body Composite: Testimony and the Problematic of Integral Healing in Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and Ken Bugul's Le Baobab fou Chapter 3: Towards a New Aesthetic of the Global: Grotesque Bodies, Circulation, and Haunting in Fama Diagne Sène's Le Chant des ténèbres and Ken Bugul's La Folie et la Mort Chapter 4: Against Quarantine: Foreign Bodies in Excess in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique and Bessora's 53 cm Epilogue: In Guise of a Conclusion
Acknowledgments Chapter 1: "Staring Back": Visible Difference, Staring, and Uncertain Legibility in Marie Chauvet's Amour and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane Chapter 2: The Body Composite: Testimony and the Problematic of Integral Healing in Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and Ken Bugul's Le Baobab fou Chapter 3: Towards a New Aesthetic of the Global: Grotesque Bodies, Circulation, and Haunting in Fama Diagne Sène's Le Chant des ténèbres and Ken Bugul's La Folie et la Mort Chapter 4: Against Quarantine: Foreign Bodies in Excess in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique and Bessora's 53 cm Epilogue: In Guise of a Conclusion
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