Health and mental issues in the literary imagination

"This collection is made of relevant analyses of literary works, scholarly papers written by colleagues serving in African Universities (Senegal, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire), or in the USA. The works examined are mostly novels by distinguished writers. And though the collection deals with the general theme of health and illness as experienced in different groups of population, these writers, among which one can cite Africans, are not necessarily healthcare professionals. Individual and collective socio-cultural representations and conceptions of illness, its etiologies, its prevention, and its development, whether favourable or not, are central to the different contributions in this volume. This accounts for our particular interest in this book"--Preface, p. [i].