Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health [Hardcover]

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.

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&llãe