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Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean - After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France Valerie Orlando
Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean - After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Valerie Orlando
A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.
216 pages, bibliog , index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 5, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780739105627 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 237 × 23 mm · 472 g |
| Language | English |