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Madness in Con-Texts: Historical, Poetic and Artistic Narratives


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Madness in Con-Text explores a series of discourses and counter discourses on madness produced in a wide range of historical, cultural and geographical contexts. A common thread in this volume relates to madness narratives, providing specific readings of written and/or unwritten texts, from archival research of 17th Century legal documents entailing the coexistence of different interpretations of insanity, to the analysis of old Afro-Caribbean proverbs, songs and folklore to explore political resistance of those labelled as 'mad' in a context of slavery, the exploration of Anorexia as an illness that acts out the paradoxes of femininity, exposing gender practices in the present, the analysis of auto-biographic narratives of madness, introducing the notion of 'psychopathographies' and observing the therapeutic value of gendered madness narratives, the exploration of visual narratives in film and theatre, the use of multimedia installation art as a creative tool towards an understanding of the subjective experience of psychosis, and an exploration of the inaccessible world of schizophrenia, through an analysis of its silent signs. The chapters compiled in this volume illustrate the complexity of madness as a human, historical, social, political and cultural phenomenon, and the resulting palimpsest must be considered within the different spheres, perspectives and contexts that constitute it.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Gonzalo Araoz Part 1: Historical Narratives Simple and Passionate: The Construction of Insanity in the Southern Netherlands Sonja Deschrijver Psycho-Resistance: Probing the Historical Discourse on Madness and Resistance during British Caribbean Chattel Slavery Chrisl Anya Thomas Part 2: Poetic Narratives Anorexia as Parody: Postmodern Feminism and the Paradoxes of Anorexia Analu Verbin Metaphors of Madness in Narratives of Schizophrenia Renana Elran Can Writing Help to Heal? Therapeutic Value of Women's Madness Narratives Katarzyna Szmigiero Part 3: Visual Narratives Social Morality as a Sign of Madness in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus Canan Savkay Mathematics Masculinity Madness Angela Woods roomforthoughts, Labyrinth Psychotica: Understanding the Subjective Experience of Psychosis Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a) Music from Another Room Sandra Uray-Kennett Notes on Contributors

About the Author :
Gonzalo Araoz is an artist, anthropologist and independent researcher. He is the Founder and Director of the Transatlantic Research Network on Mental Health and the Arts (www.tramha.org) and Leader of the Madness Project at Inter-Disciplinary Network. Gonzalo's research interests include imageries of alterity, madness and the arts, musical-temporal perception, space and place, performance and the anthropological gaze. He is currently preparing a book on Carnival and the Grotesque, an ethnographic novel and a series of artistic exhibitions.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781848880702
  • Publisher: Inter/Connexions
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Sub Title: Historical, Poetic and Artistic Narratives
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1848880707
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 270 gr


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