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- Title
Madness among Women in the Novels of Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta.
- Authors
Baisel, Anu
- Abstract
The article presents a study on madness among women in the novels of poets Buchi Emecheta and Bessie Head. It says that madness always has been with the African literary studies, specifically in women's writing and it has been introduced as a literal quality of mind. It also mentions that the novels of Emecheta and Head make its clear that madness is a common problem among black women and it made worse due to the patriarchy social institution.
- Subjects
HEAD, Bessie, 1937-1986; EMECHETA, Buchi, 1944-2017; MENTAL illness in literature; POETS; WOMEN'S writings
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 5, p723
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article