Poetics of Disturbances : Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds /

Poetics of Disturbances : Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds /

This volume calls for a Narratology of Diversity by investigating narratives of non-normative bodies and minds. It explores mental health representations in literature, including neurodiversity, the body-mind nexus, and embodied non-normativities, therein emphasizing the importance of understanding...

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Other Authors: Jumpertz, Jessica (Editor), Muijnck, Deborah de (Editor), Schneider, Ralf (Editor), Turnbull, Teresa (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Narratives and Mental Health ; 2.

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Human body in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Mental illness in literature.

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Call Number: PN56.M45

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction - Poetics of Disturbances
  • Deborah de Muijnck, Jessica Jumpertz, Ralf Schneider and Teresa Turnbull
  • PART 1: Minds, Narratives and Normativities
  • 1 Through the Looking Glass: Narrating the Madgirl in Anna Kavan's Sleep Has His House
  • Laura de la Parra Fernández
  • 2 Tense, Focalisation, and Mind: a Triangulate Relationship in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Xinran Yang
  • 3 Narrating Mental Health and Distress: the Twin Motif and Intermediality in Diana Evans's 26a
  • Christina Slopek
  • 4 Whose Story Is That? Experimental Narrative Strategies in Rethinking Normality and Age
  • Daria Baryshnikova
  • 5 Altered Consciousness in 1960s American Science Fiction: a Corpus-Stylistic Analysis
  • Elizabeth Oakes
  • PART 2: The Body-Mind Nexus, Narratives, and Normativities
  • 6 All to No a Veil: Crip Humour and Neurodiversity in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996)
  • Gunther Martens & Liselotte Van der Gucht
  • 7 Altered Narration: Unreliability in Narrators Living with Alzheimer's Disease
  • Simona Adinolfi
  • 8 Communicating Eating Disorders: Metaphor, Embodied Simulation and Experiential Understanding in Autopathographies
  • Jakob Summerer
  • 9 De-Pathologising Non-Normative Bodies and Minds of Persons with Dominance-Oriented Sexualities - the Role of Narratives about and in BDSM
  • Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen
  • 10 Plastic Bodies, Plastic Minds? Transforming Transgender Childhood through Fiction
  • Sven Van den Bossche
  • 11 Politics of Mobility and Mental Health: Representations of Refugeedom in the Mini-Series Stateless (2020)
  • Carolin Gebauer
  • PART 3: Embodied Non-Normativities
  • 12 Side-Effect Narration: Unreliable Embodiment and Ideological Repositioning in Clare Allan's Poppy Shakespeare
  • Sandra Marzinkowski
  • 13 "She is not Ours, We are Hers": We-Narration and Embodied Selves in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater
  • Anke Sharma
  • 14 Who Sees and Who Speaks with Our Head? Non-Normative Bodies, Minds, and Acts of Narration
  • Ellen Peel
  • 15 Embodied Being and Non-being in Bernard Rose's FRANK3N5T31N (2015)
  • Kit Schuster
  • 16 Playing with Speculative Bodies and Minds: Moral Imagination at Work in Primo Levi's Science Fiction
  • Marzia Beltrami
  • Index.