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This chapter explores conceptions of madness in Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison through the use of scholar La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s mad category, psychosocial madness. I argue that this category can be extended to Black mothers in academia, offering them “mad communities” that can serve as aces of empowerment and mad knowledge-making processes surrounding Black mother scholarship. Several questions guide my analysis: How might literary depictions of mad Black motherhood produce new understandings of how Black motherscholars operate and engage with motherhood? How might madness be used as a tool to create Black mother scholarship?

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Madness and Black Motherhood: Reimagining Scholarship for a Radical Future

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    2025年

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  • Javiera Green

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This chapter explores conceptions of madness in Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison through the use of scholar La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s mad category, psychosocial madness. I argue that this category can be extended to Black mothers in academia, offering them “mad communities” that can serve as aces of empowerment and mad knowledge-making processes surrounding Black mother scholarship. Several questions guide my analysis: How might literary depictions of mad Black motherhood produce new understandings of how Black motherscholars operate and engage with motherhood? How might madness be used as a tool to create Black mother scholarship?