Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities - Seminar 12

Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities (12)

CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series

Seminar Twelve: Women, Mental Health, and Identity

Anne Mutidjo (Illinois Urbana-Champaign): ‘Madness and Identity in Two Novels from Martinican Women Writers: Fabienne Kanor and Nicole Cage Forentiny’
Berredai Wedjedane (Université d’Alger 2, Algeria): ‘Between Patriarchy and Madness: Forging Female Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior’
Alessia Zinnari (University of Glasgow): ‘Alda Merini’s Memories of the Asylum: Institutional Violence and the Politicisation of Illness in 20th Century Italy'

Author: Institute of Modern Languages Research

Speaker(s): Anne Mutidjo (Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Berredai Wedjedane (Université d’Alger 2, Algeria); Alessia Zinnari (University of Glasgow)

Organisations: Institute of Modern Languages Research

Event date: Tuesday, 9 March 2021 - 5:30pm