EAN: 9783030064853

LITERARY DISABILITY STUDIES LITERATURES OF MA...

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.

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