Editors:
- Contributes to scholarly criticism on twentieth-century women writers
- Expands literary disabilities to the subject of mental health
- Highlights little-known authors and texts
Part of the book series: Literary Disability Studies (LIDIST)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mad History
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Front Matter
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Mad Survival
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
“Literatures of Madness stands as an insightful complement to pivotal mad studies volumes like Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, and Geoffrey Reaume's Mad Matters (2013) and Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, and Bob Sapey'sMadness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement (2015). The collection is a productive addition to our work as mad readers and teachers, and it can only encourage us to continue learning and addressing the rhetorical and material diversity of our madnesses.” (Hayley C. Stefan,Disability Studies Quarterly, dsq-sds.org, Vol. 41 (1), 2021)
“The collection of differing viewpoints is also one of the strengths of the edited collection format, and this group of essays presents a collection of impressive range and interest. … the essays of this collection powerfully demonstrate the importance of literary and fictional models for envisioning alternatives to structures of exclusion and misunderstanding.” (Susan Anderson, H-Disability, networks.h-net.org, April, 2019)
“This groundbreaking book takes as its premise a series of commitments to bridging myriad gaps, anew. In its formulations, which critique overtly but likewise adopt necessarily the specificities of academic publication requirements, a plethora of people's divergent disability (‘crip’) identities and variegated mental health/illness (‘mad’) identities no longer need to be split (no pun, here) along an already false binary line.” (Diane R. Wiener, metapsychology online reviews, metapsychology.mentalhelp.net, Vol. 23 (4), January, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA
Elizabeth J. Donaldson
About the editor
Elizabeth J. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where she directs the Medical Humanities program. She is co-editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literatures of Madness
Book Subtitle: Disability Studies and Mental Health
Editors: Elizabeth J. Donaldson
Series Title: Literary Disability Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92666-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92665-0Published: 13 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06485-3Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92666-7Published: 25 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-7409
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7417
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 242
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Disability Studies, Contemporary Literature