Publication

2018-08-13 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

64,250 words, Guess

Page Count

257 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103319926659
  • ISBN-139783319926650
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018943276
  • OCLC Control Number1032584954
  • Better World Books9783319926650
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPN1-PN6790
  • LCCPN56.M45 L57 2018

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. --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental HealthHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2018-08-13

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