{"product_id":"writing-madness-writing-normalcy-9781476682273","title":"Writing Madness Writing Normalcy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   What does it mean to be mad in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people''s reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about the mad in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one has written such an extensive study of the subject covered herein.\" —G.T. Couser, professor of English and founder of disability studies emeritus, Hofstra University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A significant contribution to the study of madness.\" —Dr. Peter Morrall, visiting associate professor in health sociology, University of Leeds, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting about Madness: Terminology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stigma of Madness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Confessional Mode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Self-Fashioning as Normal (Again) and as Mad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDealing with Discredit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. Self-Fashioning as Normal (Again)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelativization and Claims to Essential Normalcy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNormalization and Depathologization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarratives of Transformation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReligious Conversion Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecular Conversion Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarratives of Self-Making\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. Self-Fashioning as Mad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplicating Madness and Identity Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Humor in Madness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMadness as Suffering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMadness and Gothic Horror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Objective and Subjective Truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Producing Objective Truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting for \"the Own\": Literacy and Meaning-Making\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting for \"Normals\": Reliability and Voyeuristic Pleasures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting for Psychiatrists: Self-Specification and Case Histories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four.Producing Subjective Truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Use of Pronouns and Narrative Situations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefamiliarized Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefamiliarizing Uses of Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfessing Madness: Truth and Sexuality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMadness as Abject Corporality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040481378647,"sku":"9781476682273","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476682273.jpg?v=1750946889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-madness-writing-normalcy-9781476682273","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}