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Mad Fictions

Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature

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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.Mad Fictions is the first book to place African literature in conversation with mad studies and disability studies, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of how madness is represented in African fiction. Challenging dominant readings that reduce madness to a metaphor for collective suffering, Femi Eromosele insists that it is both a site of personal distress and a locus for social justice discourse.The book argues that the simultaneous ubiquity and invisibility of madness in African literary scholarship stems from the dominance of nationalist frameworks in the production of political legibility. It explores the way African writers situate madness at the intersection of the individual and collective body, alternatively upholding and dissolving the boundaries between selfhood and national belonging. Throughout, it explores topics including: Psychiatric power and violence.The imbrication of madness and the nation.The political conditions for the emergence of a Mad discourse.The possibility of narrating a life in the grip of mental distress.The importance of Indigenous and psychiatric epistemologies.Eromosele pushes for an attentiveness to the links between reading practices and sites of exclusion embedded in both culture and politics, a relationship he describes as ‘narrative comorbidity’.Mad Fictions reorients critical discussions toward the lived realities of mental distress, while challenging the nationalist paradigms that have long dominated African literary scholarship.Cover art: "..deny that!" Acrylic on canvas, 2023. Nontokozo Tshabalala, myportfolio.com.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-07
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool Studies in Health, Disability, Culture & Society
Antal sidor264
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781836244776

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Femi Eromosele is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. He obtained his PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Before joining Utrecht University, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Lecturer of English and Critical Thinking in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand. He has published widely on topics around African literature, the health humanities, and African screen media.

"What comes into view when we go beyond reading madness as a textual narrative device in literature? In an elegant, witty prose, Eromosele sets out to answer this question by reconfiguring the contours of scholarly engagement with madness in African literature. By listening attentively to what the mad figure in African literature has to tell us, Mad Fictions showcases the limits of medical discourse, disability studies, and allegorizing literary frameworks, while pointing to the world-making insights that surface when we take seriously the mad individual’s interface with the communities that frame their lifeworlds." - ** Grace A Musila, Associate Professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand

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