TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deane,Laura
TI  - Gender, madness, and colonial paranoia in Australian literature: Australian psychoses 
SN  - 9781498547338
AV  - PR9612 .G463 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Mental illness in literature
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : made mad: women, madness and national culture --; The intelligible madwoman --; Theorizing the madwoman: gender, madness and colonialism --; National identity and colonial paranoia in The man who loved children --; Cannibalism and colonialism: Lilian's story --; Dark places and the white nation: colonial manliness --; Conclusions: Australian psychoses; 2; b
N2  - This book rethinks women's madness through a rigorous analysis of colonial paranoia. Arguing that colonialism produces a distinct cultural expression of women's madness, this book contends that it is the male characters of the novels who exhibit symptoms of colonial paranoia, as inheritors and agents of the colonial enterprise
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