Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance

Chapter 1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics - Caroline A. Brown

Part I: Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation

Chapter 2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe - Nancy Caronia

Chapter 4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Victoria Papa

Part II: The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony

Chapter 5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women's Fiction - Johanna X. K. Garvey

Chapter 7. "We Know People By Their Stories": Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! - Raquel D. Kennon

Part III: Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm

Chapter 8. Sharazade's Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Majda R. Atieh

Chapter 9. Magic, Madness and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring - Caroline A. Brown

Chapter 10. "Recordless Company": Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl - E. Kim Stone

Chapter 11: Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures - Johanna X. K. Garvey