Open AccessThe Intersectional Madwoman Outside the Attic
Author(s) -
Scheherazade Khan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1749-9771
DOI - 10.2218/forum.31.5497
Subject(s) - silence , attic , colonialism , representation (politics) , history , intersectionality , literature , art , gender studies , sociology , aesthetics , archaeology , politics , law , political science , roof
The novels Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga break the silence surrounding Africana women’s intersectional experiences through the representation of madness that viscerally rejects the patriarchal, colonial and even literary burdens in the novels by unapologetically asserting hybridised identities.