A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unpacking the political, historical, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of madness and mental distress in literary and visual cultures.
Raising vital questions about the nature of madness and the limits of personhood, the practices of care and politics of reality, this valuable book asks how the various disciplines it represents might shape more radical and tender horizons for those living under the descriptions of mental illness.
This is a book for anyone concerned with examining new models of interdependent psychic-sociality. Put simply, it asks how we might make life more liveable for ourselves, for each other, and crucially, for strangers we will never meet.
- 397 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: We, The Unquantifiable
- Part I Experiences: Anxiety, Despair, Mania, Altered States
- 1 ‘Hangxiety’ in Contemporary Spanish Feminist Graphic Autofictions
- 2 Shooting Dissolution: Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things and the Politics of Despair
- 3 Cinemania: Madness and the Moving Image
- 4 Laughing with the Mad, Spectating the Sane: Comedy, Madness, and the Early Modern Stage
- Part II Events: Trauma, Grief, Self-Harm, Suicide
- 5 A Tale of Two Traumatizing Mothers: Individual and Political Madness in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage
- 6 Deaths by Shooting: Disenfranchised Grief and the Contemporary Elegy
- 7 Representations of Self-Harm in Performance and the Everyday: Towards New Contracts with the Skin
- 8 Playing with Suicide: Untimely Wanderings with Suicidality
- Part III Environments: Asylums, Streets, Organizations, Atmospheres, Hospitals
- 9 Viewing Virtually: The Topographical Asylum Print
- 10 Madness and Female Role Performances on Stage: Kabuki and Mental Illness in Japan c.1600–c.1800
- 11 Organizational Madness
- 12 Diagnosed with ‘Environmental Degradation’: Health, Pollution, and Environmental Sexism in Safe
- 13 (Re) Making Space: Young People, Mental Health, and Scenographic Agency
- Part IV Expertise: Diagnosis, Treatment, Therapy, Recovery, Resistance
- 14 Authenticity and Representations of Mental Health in Popular Visual Media: Schizophrenia, Dementia Praecox, and Hollywood, 1940–1960
- 15 Art as an Alternative Philosophy of Care in Mental Distress
- 16 Notes on Therapy
- 17 Stand-up Comedy as Recovery Narrative
- 18 Interview with Robert Whitaker
- Part V Enfoldings: Families, Carers, Communities, Spirits
- 19 When Madness Matters: The Limits and Affordances of Representing Madness in Contemporary Biopics of Historical Royal Women
- 20 Community Care Gothic: The Madness of Saint Maud
- 21 Less Ritalin and More Glitter: Re-shaping Recovery Through Carnival
- 22 Curating Madness: Suicidality and the Spirit in Between
- Index
- Copyright
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