Imperial Illness: Considering the Trope of Madness in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven

The purpose of this thesis is to examine Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1996), and to scrutinize, through Christopher’s mental illness, the couched, unspoken, and deeply embedded presence of imperial hegemony in the Caribbean. I shall argue that Christopher’s mental illness is not, as one...

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Main Author: McCrink, James
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2017
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3199
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4184&context=etd