Writing madness : borderlines of the body in African Literature / created by Flora Veit-Wild.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction - Madness in the Colony: Exclusion & Projection - Black Hamlet: Engaging with the African Healer - Surrealism in Africa? From Rimbaud to Cesaire - Mad Writing, Writing Madness: Dambudzo Marechera - Time's Gone Mad: The Rhyming & Ranting of Lesego Rampolokeng - The Grotesque Body of the Post-Colony: Sony Labou Tansi - Walking Vaginas: Bodily Boundaries in African Oral Culture - Nervous Conditions as Sites of Resistance: Bessie Head, Rebeka Njau & Tsitsi Dangarembga - Tsitsi Dangarembga's Film Kare Kare: The Survival of the Butchered Woman.

Introducing the perspective of 'writing madness' into African literature means seeing that literature from a different angle, through the lenses of writers who have ruffled up the surface of realist representation and have explored issues and styles that represent a trespassing of borders, introducing an element of risk and instability.