The Politics of Form: Performance, Curation, and Reparative Reading in Mad Narratives
This paper examines the aesthetic and formal strategies Kate Millett, and Madison Clell, Susannah Cahalan, authors of mad narratives including The Looney Bin Trip (1990), Cuckoo (2002), Brain on Fire (2012) respectively, employ to challenge the authority of dominant psychiatric discourses. It argues that in response to...