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Critical Conditions: Reading Illness And Disability In Francophone African And Caribbean Women's Writing, Represents A Novel Approach Not Only To Postcolonial Francophone Literature But To Literary And Cultural Studies In General. Julie Nack Ngue's Analyses Attend Not Only To The Aesthetics Of The Texts, But To Culturally Relevant Scientific And Historical Discourses On The Body, Gender, And Race, And To The Material Conditions That Produce And Exacerbate Illness And Disability. Adopting A Comparative, Interdisciplinary Approach, Nack Ngue Argues That Cultural And Literary Expressions Of Illness, Suffering, And Subjectivity In The Postcolonial Context Are Always In Dialogue With Seemingly External Discourses And Practices Of Health. Thus, Through Sustained Analyses Of Historical, Biomedical And Sociocultural Currents In The Context Of Eight Francophone Novels From 1968 To 2003, The Book Advances A New Theory Of Critical Conditions. These Critical Conditions Represent The Conjunction Of Bodily, Psychic, And Textual States That Defy Conventional Definitions Of Health And Well-being. The Study Focuses On Francophone Women Writers Who Offer Striking Commentaries On The Experience Of Il

Author

Julie Christine Nack Ngue

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739151143

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Psychology

Updated

2026-03-24