The Madwoman Can't Speak

Or why Insanity is Not Subversive

• Author(s): Marta Caminero-Santangelo,
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pages: 195
• ISBN_10: 0801435145
  ISBN_13: 9780801435140
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Psychology / Mental Illness , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory ,

Description:... In this work, the subversive madwoman first appropriated by feminist theorists and critics is re-evaluated. How, the author asks, can such a figure be subversive if she's effectively imprisoned, silent and unseen? Taking issue with a prominent strand of current feminist literary criticism, Caminero-Santangelo identifies a counternarrative in writing by women in the last half of the 20th century, one which rejects madness, even as a symbolic resolution.