Literatures of madness : disability studies and mental health /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018].
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| Series: | Literary disability studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Breathing in airless spaces / Elizabeth J. Donaldson
- Coming out mad, coming out disabled / Elizabeth Brewer
- Going barefoot : mad affiliation, identity politics, and eros / PhebeAnn M. Wolframe
- "Hundreds of people like me" : a search for a mad community in The bell jar / Rose Miyatsu
- Writing madness in indigenous literature : a hesitation / Erin Soros
- "Is the young lady mad?" : psychiatric disability in Louisa May Alcott's fiction / Karyn Valerius
- The snake pit : Mary Jane Ward's asylum fiction and mental health advocacy / Elizabeth J. Donaldson
- Alcoholic, mad, disabled : constructing lesbian identity in Ann Bannon's "The Beebo Brinker chronicles" / Tatiana Prorokova
- Seeing words, hearing voices : Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the poetic performance of radical dis/humanism / Andrew McEwan
- "My difference is not my (mental) sickness" : ethnicity and erasure in Joanne Greenberg's Jewish American life writing / Gail Berkeley Sherman
- Resistance, suffering, and psychiatric disability in Jerry Pinto's Em and the big Hoom and Amandeep Sandhu's Sepia leaves / Srikanth Mallavarapu
- Mental disability and social value in Michelle Cliff's Abeng / Drew Holladay
- It doesn't add up : mental illness in Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, come home / Jessica Gross.