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Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The term madness continues to perplex, to puzzle and to provoke. As such, questions about madness circulate around the place of madness across historical, cultural, and social boundaries. Regardless of the place that madness assumes in our world, madness can be understood as having the potential to liberate individuals from a society of control. Because madness can be understood not merely as one end of the binary of reason and unreason but as a form of art that allows us to transcend reason, it provides us with the ultimate liberation: to accept, know and understand the possibilities of a multiplicity of meanings and senses beyond reason, beyond the commonsense. And with such liberation, we gain the power not only to change our own lives, but society as a whole.
The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations
This volume investigates the role of English, British, Irish, American, Canadian and Nigerian anglophone literary conceptualizations of mental and social distress, its diagnosis and treatment as transformative parts of the cultural heritage of psychiatry. Demonstrating that the history of psychiatry is not a narrative of unbridled, unequivocal progress, the volume explores how literary texts negotiate and critique dominant and alternative forms and traditions of treatment and care, how they challenge the medicalization of non-normative thoughts and behaviour and how they bear witness to and fragmentarily retrieve and imagine suppressed voices, thereby producing counter-cultural memories.
Diversity: Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Perspectives
This essay collection emerges from a year-long interdisciplinary exploration of cultural diversity within the framework of English and American Studies. Informed by contemporary socio-political challenges, the volume positions academic discourse as a vital counterforce to reactionary narratives that stigmatise non-normative identities by showing the omnipresence of diversity in literature and culture. The eleven essays, contributed by MA students, alumni, and faculty from across seven countries, reflect the diverse perspectives and methodologies shaping the growing field of diversity studies. Topics range from literary representations of queerness, race, gender, and disability to narratological approaches to ageing, and linguistic analyses of climate change discourse. Together, they demonstrate how literature, film, and media can serve as critical tools for examining power structures, identity politics, and social inclusion. This collection contributes to the ongoing institutionalisation of diversity studies as a critical, transdisciplinary field concerned not only with representation but with structural transformation in society and knowledge production alike.
Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality
From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.
