03528nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-59892-0 DE-He213 20251030112341.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240629s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031598920 978-3-031-59892-0 10.1007/978-3-031-59892-0 doi PN843-849 DS bicssc LIT000000 bisacsh DS thema Chi, Chienyn. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 79611 Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature [electronic resource] / by Chienyn Chi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 143 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 1 Aimé Césaire’s Insensé Réveil -- 2 Lu Xun’s 狂 -- 3 Virginia Woolf’s Tangled Forest -- 4 Conclusion Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Muroyi. Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness. Chienyn Chi received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is working on her second book, The Colony and The City. Literature. 65108 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Literature History and criticism. 66499 Medicine and the humanities. 66324 Science History. 65232 World Literature. 66655 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Literary Criticism. 66500 Medical Humanities. 66327 History of Science. 66101 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031598913 Printed edition: 9783031598937 Printed edition: 9783031598944 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59892-0 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 61151 61151