Fighting Madness, Making Caribbeanness: Kelly Baker Josephs's &lt;i&gt;Disturbers of The Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature&lt;/i&gt;

Sheri-Marie L Harrison

doi:10.33596/anth.298

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Fighting Madness, Making Caribbeanness: Kelly Baker Josephs's <i>Disturbers of The Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature</i>

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Baker Josephs, Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013), 191pp
The proliferation of mad characters in Caribbean fiction at large makes it puzzling that we were a decade into the twenty-first century before the publication of a critical study dedicated entirely to this ubiquitous literary trope, in its own right, as a distinctively Caribbean literary aesthetic
Other strengths of this book include the flexible and multifaceted way Josephs treats and analyzes various literary manifestations of madness, her balanced reliance on Caribbean criticism to illuminate the region’s texts, and the methodological example she sets for approaching representations of madness in Caribbean fiction beyond the bounds of her own book’s focus

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(2015) "Fighting Madness, Making Caribbeanness: Kelly Baker Josephs's Disturbers of The Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature," Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal: Vol 12 : Iss. 2 , Article 8. Baker Josephs, Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013), 191pp.

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