Poetics of Disturbances

Narratives of Non-Normative Bodies and Minds
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51987-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 02, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Narratives and Mental Health

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

de Muijnck, Deborah

Jumpertz, Jessica

Schneider, Ralf

Turnbull, Teresa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah de Muijnck, Dr. phil. (1988) is a postdoctoral researcher at Justus-Liebig University. Formerly a researcher at RWTH Aachen University (2019 - 2023) and an Institutional Affiliate at Harvard University (2023), she publishes in the fields of cognitive narratology, post-trauma autobiographical storytelling, and in the medical humanities.


Jessica Jumpertz, M.A. (1992) is a research and teaching assistant at RWTH Aachen University. She is currently completing her PhD thesis on the representation of highly intelligent female characters in 19th to 20th century literature.

Ralf Schneider, Prof. Dr. phil. (1966) is Professor and Chair of English Literature at RWTH Aachen University and co-founder of the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies (ACCELS). He publishes on British literature and culture, with a focus on cognitive narratology.

Teresa Turnbull, M.A. (1987) is a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University. Her PhD project focuses on impossible bodies and reader cognition. Her journal articles include “Reading Bodies as Space in Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Body’” (2023).