{"product_id":"9783031598944","title":"Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eChi, Chienyn\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature\u003c\/em\u003e provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s \u003cem\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism \u003c\/em\u003eto shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eMrs. Dalloway, \u003c\/em\u003eand Tsitsi Dangarembga’s \u003cem\u003eNervous Conditions \u003c\/em\u003eto assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-07-01\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031598944\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-59892-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 143\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44395494113420,"sku":"9783031598944","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031598944.jpg?v=1774037010","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031598944","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}