Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions Aesthetics of Resistance

Caroline A. Brown is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is author of The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity (2012). Her articles have appeared in African American Review , Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East , National Women’s Studies Association Journal , and several other journals and edited collections.

Johanna X. K. Garvey is Associate Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA, where she was founding Co-Director of the Women’s Studies Program and the Program in Black Studies: Africa and the Diaspora. She has published on Ann Petry, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Paule Marshall, Dionne Brand, Shani Mootoo, Patricia Powell, Maryse Condé, and others, in Callaloo , The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature , Textual Practice , Anthurium, and elsewhere. She is completing a book manuscript on Caribbean women writing diaspora.