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...- oe’ rtn fArc n h Caribbean the and Africa of Writing Women’s Francophone in Madness through Subjecthood Seeking Souls: Tortured and Hearts Suffocated Of (Re)Presentation Photography, Literature, Maghreb: the Picturing...

...Caroline Brown “A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala” examines Head's A Question of Power and The Sun Hath Looked upon Me , by Beyala. In both novels, trauma serves as a metaphor for the disruption caused by gendered and/or racialized...

...Shantanu Phukan © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 “None Mad as a Hindu Woman”: Contesting Communal Readings of Padmavat Shantanu Phukan Nationalist and Communalist Readings...

..., titled, Deli ( Mad ), written in 1930, both by by Refik Halit Karay, an intellectual and journalist living in exile in Aleppo, serve as two points of entry into this decade. The plot of the play, in which a man falls into a coma two days before the restoration of the constitution in 1908 and wakes up...

...- oe’ rtn fArc n h Caribbean the and Africa of Writing Women’s Francophone in Madness through Subjecthood Seeking Souls: Tortured and Hearts Suffocated Of (Re)Presentation Photography, Literature, Maghreb: the Picturing...

... the social imaginary, fixing to the island the image of “madness” and vesting the asylum with its well-earned dreadful aura. “Patients shut in iron cages behind barbed-wire fences, 85 percent of the patients restrained or in straitjackets. Their treatments were described: blows, water jets to calm them down...

... and Spread of Nationalism . Revised ed. London : Verso , 2006 . Anidjar Gil . Semites: Race, Religion, Literature . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Artvinli Fatih . Delilik, Siyaset ve Toplum: Toptaşı Bimarhanesi (1873–1927) (Madness, Politics, and Society...

... and on docks and farms alongside other Algerians during the years he composed Nedjma . Another of Nedjma 's narrators, Mustapha, is imprisoned during the Sétif protests. He loses his mother to madness, evoking the author's biography. The nonelite Algerian subject who preoccupied Yacine in Nedjma...

... real or fictional shackles of bounded identities are shirked: conversations but to bring out the madness of “How did we come to this, Fuad? This isn’t what all conversation and of all dialogue, even inte- we hoped and dreamed for. I weep...

..., “allows us to sit with concepts and traditions and engage their development on their own terms.” The modern is not a negation or an epistemic rupture, but multiple discourses continue to operate within it. And, therefore, multiple readings remain possible; El-Ariss points to his own reading of madness...

... and London Calling . 19. See Schuler, Alas, Alas, Kongo . 20. Marson, Pocomania and London Calling , 66 . 21. See Jarrett-Macauley, “A Woman's Little Madness” ; and Ford-Smith, “Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer.” 22. See, for example, Beitz, “Does Global...

... activist, drew on existing tropes of what Parama Roy calls, characterizing Orientalist perspectives, the “vegetarian cruelty” of Indians, offering in its stead a Christian ethic of love. 18 Rogers describes in her memoir, Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman , the sight that convinced her to remain in India...

... madness, I will cling to your tresses, If there is no one there to share your thoughts, And from your lips, I will incite a riot. To whom will you tell your sorrow...

... white supremacist politics. With this context as a have publicly debated whether Al-­e Ahmad’s re- backdrop, I argue that in assessing both Al-­e Ah- conversion to Islam was genuine or merely instru- mad’s and Malcolm’s searches for means through mental...

...-   of narrative progression. “Mimetic urgencies” lence, but they cannot, within the constraints demand “mimetic responsibilities”; atrocity, si- imposed by their respective objects of scrutiny, lence, trauma, exile, madness, and loss inhabit venture conclusions that, in their very transcen...

... o antpaaei ihrb het,persua- bribes.” threats, or by sion, either it as placate inasmuch cannot terrifying, you truly mad? is fact, alone Madness in fe- destructive unthinkable; in- of almost incomprehensible, act be explicable, to an as to absurd so say rocity to one is novel what his in act...

...,” and “women are simultaneously in- intersection with systemic racism and impover- corporated into and oppressed by both kinds of ishment often orchestrates narratives through movements, particularly with regard to their re- tropes of madness, schizophrenia, complicity, 24...

... is a coexistence of autonomy and heteronomy, of the traditional practice of ethical self-attunement ( tahdhib al-nafs ) and the modern science of psychology (‘ ilm al-nafs )” (60). El Shakry's work resonates with my reading of madness as junun but also as queerness and possession in Trials of Arab Modernity...

... its own nuclear tests madness (and remaining there or sliding out of it), later that month. these authors are reconceptualizing women’s posi- The weaponization of India’s and Pakistan’s Comparative tions and identities, and recharting...

... account of madness, read as a dispossessive force that marks “an inorganic beyond of life, of a materiality that is both ghostly and flat” (297). Madness in jinn possession appears as an “anamorphosis of the apparatus of power and the violence of the state” (303). Foucault's Histoire de la folie...