{"product_id":"black-women-unhinged","title":"Black Women Unhinged","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRethinking the theoretical and political deployment of madness in the late twentieth century through the critical work of black women novelists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Women Unhinged \u003c\/i\u003erevisits the \"black women's literary renaissance\" to offer new terms at the intersection of gender, race, and madness before and beyond its crystallization into discourses of mental health and disability. Reconstructing the cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s–1980s, when madness emerged as a radical position in the work of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, and David Cooper, and in the politics of feminists and Black Power activists, \u003ci\u003eBlack Women Unhinged \u003c\/i\u003ereassesses black women's overlooked contributions to this politics of madness. Megan Finch reads this renaissance's catalogue of ostensibly mad literary characters—schizophrenic girls, infanticidal and drug-addicted mothers, castrating murderesses, and suicidal revolutionaries—beyond madness's philosophical and political bounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentering the relationship between Reason and the multiple forms of unReason central to modern politics, Finch traces the deployment of madness by the Black Power\/Art's movements and second-wave feminists to fortify black men's and white women's civic inclusion while dismissing black women's politics as irremediable folly. Finch argues that black women's novels of the period—including Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBeloved, \u003c\/i\u003eGayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEva's Man,\u003c\/i\u003e Toni Cade Bambara's \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Eaters,\u003c\/i\u003e and Nettie Jones's \u003ci\u003eFish Tales\u003c\/i\u003e—depict characters who exceed the category of madness and are unhinged from the curative politics of inclusion purchased through another's abjection. \u003ci\u003eBlack Women Unhinged\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with black women's literary and theoretical contributions to the politics of madness and their attempts, past and present, to move beyond them to something akin to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682889900405,"sku":"9781517921910","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57680128835957,"sku":"9781517921903","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517921910_c334283c-6f20-4c43-8ef2-184bf161b95d.jpg?v=1792511749","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/black-women-unhinged","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}