Poetics of Disturbances : Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds (Narratives and Mental Health)

de Muijnck, Deborah (EDT)/ Jumpertz, Jessica (EDT)/ Schneider, Ralf (EDT)

Brill（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004519879
• DDC分類 809.93561689

Full Description

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 diverse psychological conditions as represented in narratives. The contributions include perspectives from a wide variety of scholars of European, North American, and comparative literature and culture.



While post-classical narratology has evolved through phases of diversification and consolidation, this volume represents innovation in understanding narrative development to embrace new areas of social awareness, including gendered narratologies (specifically feminist and queer narratologies) and post-colonial criticism, paving the way for a more inclusive narratology.

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