Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; "Madness Is Rampant on This Island": Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Centuries of Crazy; Why the Caribbean?; Part One: Madness Reconsidered; Part Two: Madness as Methodology; Part Three: From Madness to Altered States; The Roads Not Taken; Works Cited; "Kingston Full of Them": Madwomen at the Crossroads; Placing Signification; Signifying Place; Connecting the Crossroads; Works Cited; "Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story": Madness, Rage, and Literary Self-Making in Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid.

The Madwoman in the Attic"Is mad the same as mad mad and mad mad mad?" (Josephs 1); "The Day They Burned the Books"; My Brother; Conclusion; Works Cited; Madness and Silence in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and In the Falling Snow; Works Cited; Speaking of Madness in the First Person/Speaking Madness in the Second Person? Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and "The Cheater's Guide to Love"; Works Cited; What Is "Worse Besides"? An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Literature; Works Cited; Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother.

Works CitedHorizons of Desire in Caribbean Queer Speculative Fiction: Marlon James's John Crow's Devil; Works Cited; When Seeing Is Believing: Enduring Injustice in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting; Works Cited; Migrant Madness or Poetics of Spirit? Teaching Fiction by Erna Brodber and Kei Miller; Works Cited; (Re)Locating Madness and Prophesy: An Interview with Kei Miller; Index.