LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Madness among Women in the Novels of Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta

Anu Baisel, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Turning Inwards

The novels of Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta make it clear that madness is a common problem among black women. Their problems are made, worse because of the patriarchy social institution which functions on the principal that "male shall dominate female".

Purpose of This Study

In a globalized world, with much talk about highly developed and knowledgeable societies, the leading edge of everything good and desirable, it is ironic that not much is heard of mad people, particularly mad woman. It is possible that the society deliberately ignores the plight of this set of people or that the society is so busy that no one really remembers these people either in real life or in literary texts. So, the purpose of this study is to focus on the plight of mad people in society, particularly the plight of mad women. The study in this light concerns itself with insanity among women both in life and in texts.

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Anu Baisel, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor (I)
Department of Science and Humanities
Velammal Engineering College
Velammal Nagar, Ambattur -Red Hills Road
Chennai – 600 066
Tamilnadu
India
anu.baisel@gmail.com
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