“An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Fiction“

Madness has historically functioned as a powerful trope of gender, race, or class oppression in fiction from colonized and postcolonial countries. Mardorossian examines how Caribbean writers have negotiated the danger that the trope of madness poses, namely that of leading to unidimensional characters. She argues that one of the ways Caribbean writers negotiate madness’ unidimensionality is through their characters’ association with a multi-layered environment and landscape.