Literatures of Madness

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 Blackridge, 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.

Auteur

Elizabeth J. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where she directs the Medical Humanities program. She is co-editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (2012).

Texte du rabat

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 Blackridge, 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.

Contenu

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 García, 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