Literatures of madness : disability studies and mental health

Author(s)

• Donaldson, Elizabeth J.

Bibliographic Information

Literatures of madness : disability studies and mental health

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, editor

（Literary disability studies）

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

• : pbk

Note

"Softcover re-print of the Hardcover 1st edition 2018"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health. The collection contains essays on canonical authors and lesser known and sometimes forgotten writers, including Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, Hannah Weiner, Mary Jane Ward, Michelle Cliff, Lee Maracle, Joanne Greenberg, Ann Bannon, Jerry Pinto, Persimmon Blackbridge, and others. The volume addresses the under-representation of madness and psychiatric disability in the field of disability studies, which traditionally focuses on physical disability, and explores the controversies and the common ground among disability studies, anti-psychiatric discourses, mad studies, graphic medicine, and health/medical humanities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Breathing in Airless Spaces Elizabeth J. Donaldson Part I: Mad Community 1 Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled Elizabeth Brewer 2 Going Barefoot: Mad Affiliation, Identity Politics, and Eros PhebeAnn M. Wolframe 3 "Hundreds of People Like Me": A Search for a Mad Community in The Bell Jar Rose Miyatsu 4 Writing Madness in Indigenous Literature: A Hesitation Erin Soros Part II: Mad History 5 "Is the young lady mad?": Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction Karen Valerius 6 The Snake Pit: Mary Jane Ward's Asylum Fiction and Mental Health Advocacy Elizabeth J. Donaldson 7 Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon's "Beebo Brinker Chronicles" Tatiana Prorokova 8 Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora Garcia, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/Humanism Andrew McEwan Part III: Mad Survival 9 "My Difference Is Not My [Mental] Sickness": Ethnicity and Erasure in Joanne Greenberg's Jewish American Life Writing Gail Berkeley Sherman 10 Resistance, Suffering, and Psychiatric Disability in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom and Amandeep Sandhu's Sepia Leaves Srikanth Mallavarapu 11 Mental Disability and Social Value in Michelle Cliff's Abeng Drew Holladay 12 It Doesn't Add Up: Mental Illness in Paul Hornschemeier's Mother Come Home Jessica Gross

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Details

• NCID: BC14603997
• ISBN:
  • 9783030064853
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 242 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 810.93561
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mental illness in literature
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
  • LCSH : Canadian literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB22465144