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.
