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Poetics of Disturbances
Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds
Series: - Narratives and Mental Health, Volume: 2
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.
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.
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 âReading Bodies as Space in Hanif Kureishiâs âThe Bodyââ (2023).
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 âReading Bodies as Space in Hanif Kureishiâs âThe Bodyââ (2023).
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction â Poetics of Disturbances
âDeborah de Muijnck, Jessica Jumpertz, Ralf Schneider and Teresa Turnbull
6 All to No a Veil: Crip Humour and Neurodiversity in David Foster Wallaceâs Infinite Jest (1996)
âGunther Martens & Liselotte Van der Gucht
7 Altered Narration: Unreliability in Narrators Living with Alzheimerâs Disease
âSimona Adinolfi
8 Communicating Eating Disorders: Metaphor, Embodied Simulation and Experiential Understanding in Autopathographies
âJakob Summerer
9 De-Pathologising Non-Normative Bodies and Minds of Persons with Dominance-Oriented Sexualities â the Role of Narratives about and in BDSM
âHenrik Zetterberg-Nielsen
10 Plastic Bodies, Plastic Minds? Transforming Transgender Childhood through Fiction
âSven Van den Bossche
11 Politics of Mobility and Mental Health: Representations of Refugeedom in the Mini-Series Stateless (2020)
âCarolin Gebauer
12 Side-Effect Narration: Unreliable Embodiment and Ideological Repositioning in Clare Allanâs Poppy Shakespeare
âSandra Marzinkowski
13 âShe is not Ours, We are Hersâ: We-Narration and Embodied Selves in Akwaeke Emeziâs Freshwater
âAnke Sharma
14 Who Sees and Who Speaks with Our Head? Non-Normative Bodies, Minds, and Acts of Narration
âEllen Peel
15 Embodied Being and Non-being in Bernard Roseâs FRANK3N5T31N (2015)
âKit Schuster
16 Playing with Speculative Bodies and Minds: Moral Imagination at Work in Primo Leviâs Science Fiction
âMarzia Beltrami
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction â Poetics of Disturbances
âDeborah 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 Kavanâs Sleep Has His House
âLaura de la Parra Fernández
2 Tense, Focalisation, and Mind: a Triangulate Relationship in One Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nest
âXinran Yang
3 Narrating Mental Health and Distress: the Twin Motif and Intermediality in Diana Evansâs 26a
âChristina Slopek
4 Whose Story Is That? Experimental Narrative Strategies in Rethinking Normality and Age
âDaria Baryshnikova
5 Altered Consciousness in 1960s American Science Fiction: a Corpus-Stylistic Analysis
âElizabeth Oakes
PART 2: The Body-Mind Nexus, Narratives, and Normativities
6 All to No a Veil: Crip Humour and Neurodiversity in David Foster Wallaceâs Infinite Jest (1996)
âGunther Martens & Liselotte Van der Gucht
7 Altered Narration: Unreliability in Narrators Living with Alzheimerâs Disease
âSimona Adinolfi
8 Communicating Eating Disorders: Metaphor, Embodied Simulation and Experiential Understanding in Autopathographies
âJakob Summerer
9 De-Pathologising Non-Normative Bodies and Minds of Persons with Dominance-Oriented Sexualities â the Role of Narratives about and in BDSM
âHenrik Zetterberg-Nielsen
10 Plastic Bodies, Plastic Minds? Transforming Transgender Childhood through Fiction
âSven Van den Bossche
11 Politics of Mobility and Mental Health: Representations of Refugeedom in the Mini-Series Stateless (2020)
âCarolin Gebauer
PART 3: Embodied Non-Normativities
12 Side-Effect Narration: Unreliable Embodiment and Ideological Repositioning in Clare Allanâs Poppy Shakespeare
âSandra Marzinkowski
13 âShe is not Ours, We are Hersâ: We-Narration and Embodied Selves in Akwaeke Emeziâs Freshwater
âAnke Sharma
14 Who Sees and Who Speaks with Our Head? Non-Normative Bodies, Minds, and Acts of Narration
âEllen Peel
15 Embodied Being and Non-being in Bernard Roseâs FRANK3N5T31N (2015)
âKit Schuster
16 Playing with Speculative Bodies and Minds: Moral Imagination at Work in Primo Leviâs Science Fiction
âMarzia Beltrami
Index
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