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1 online resource (151 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141 -146) and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women writers. It readdresses the madwoman trope, opening up multiple sites of literary madness, examining places and spaces outside of the 'madwoman in the attic.' In particular, a transnational approach sets itself up against a Eurocentric approach to literary madness. Women novelists from the Brontës to the Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Arab writers Fadia Faqir and Miral al-Tahawy interrogate patriarchal societies and oppressive cultures. Female characters who suffer from madness are strikingly similar in their. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women's writing.
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Women's writing. |
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Women's writing. |
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Mentally ill women in literature.
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Mentally ill women in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alshammari, Shahd. Literary madness in British, postcolonial, and Bedouin women's writing. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2016] 1443897566 (OCoLC)961005044 |
| ISBN |
9781443812948 (electronic book) |
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1443812943 (electronic book) |
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1443897566 |
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9781443897563 |
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