Monstrous bodies, mad minds: Reading trauma through the body in Indigenous and diasporic contexts

Authors

  • Angela Herring-Lauzon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/z4cx6z52

Author Biography

  • Angela Herring-Lauzon

    Angela Herring-Lauzon is a recent graduate of McMaster University with an MA in cultural studies and  critical theory. Her work focuses primarily on the emancipatory potential of writing rage as justice, through studies of racialized depictions of madness and monstrosity in literature and other cultural texts.

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Published

2018-08-31

How to Cite

Monstrous bodies, mad minds: Reading trauma through the body in Indigenous and diasporic contexts. (2018). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/z4cx6z52