ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Postpartum Psychosis, Grammatical Gender, Northern Canada
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Madness: much of what the widow does is interpreted as lunacy / derangement; can this be counted as empowerment, she uses a conflation of discourses when discussing madness in the novel, atwood whites going north and going crazy, pg. 65: the thing to be feared always came from within : postpartum psychosis, delusional beliefs centred on the infant and auditory hallucinations , risk of infanticide and suicide, 98: she was helpless to stop the ghosts, pg. 69: the weak crying of her baby in her ears: pg. 216: standing in the shadow was a girl so similar to her where"s the baby : tries to manage hallucinations through denial and dissociation, pg. 180: speaks to a madman to share his infected thoughts an indictment of herself, of her own madness : pg. Criminality: criminality as a feature of the north murder as a common feature of northern.
