Daria Tunca

Bénédicte Ledent

Evelyn O'Callaghan

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures.

On the Edge

Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Caribbean Examination Council

Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb

This pioneering study surveys 19th and 20th century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender.

"a Hot Place, Belonging to Us"

Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939

Caryl Phillips' 'Cambridge'

Fiction Masquerading as History Unmasked as Fiction

Evelyn O'Callaghan

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