Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health

Introduction: Breathing in Airless Spaces

Elizabeth J. Donaldson

Part I: Mad Community

1         Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled

Elizabeth Brewer

2         Going Barefoot: Mad Affiliation, Identity Politics, and Eros

PhebeAnn M. Wolframe

3        "Hundreds of People Like Me": A Search for a Mad Community in The Bell Jar

Rose Miyatsu

4        Writing Madness in Indigenous Literature: A Hesitation

Erin Soros

5        "Is the young lady mad?": Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction

Karen Valerius

6         The Snake Pit: Mary Jane Ward's Asylum Fiction and Mental Health Advocacy

Elizabeth J. Donaldson

7         Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon's "Beebo Brinker Chronicles"

Tatiana Prorokova

8        Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/Humanism

Andrew McEwan

Part III: Mad Survival

9        "My Difference Is Not My [Mental] Sickness": Ethnicity and Erasure in Joanne Greenberg's Jewish American Life Writing

Gail Berkeley Sherman

10    Resistance, Suffering, and Psychiatric Disability in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom and Amandeep Sandhu's Sepia Leaves

Srikanth Mallavarapu

11    Mental Disability and Social Value in Michelle Cliff's Abeng

Drew Holladay

12     It Doesn't Add Up: Mental Illness in Paul Hornschemeier's Mother Come Home

Jessica Gross