Introduction: Breathing in Airless Spaces
Elizabeth J. Donaldson
Part I: Mad Community
1 Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled
Elizabeth Brewer
2 Going Barefoot: Mad Affiliation, Identity Politics, and Eros
PhebeAnn M. Wolframe
3 "Hundreds of People Like Me" A Search for a Mad Community in The Bell Jar
Rose Miyatsu
4 Writing Madness in Indigenous Literature: A Hesitation
Erin Soros
Part II: Mad History
5 "Is the young lady mad?" Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction
Karen Valerius
6 The Snake Pit: Mary Jane Ward's Asylum Fiction and Mental Health Advocacy
Elizabeth J. Donaldson
7 Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon's "Beebo Brinker Chronicles"
Tatiana Prorokova
8 Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/Humanism
Andrew McEwan
Part III: Mad Survival
9 "My Difference Is Not My [Mental] Sickness" Ethnicity and Erasure in Joanne Greenberg's Jewish American Life Writing
Gail Berkeley Sherman
10 Resistance, Suffering, and Psychiatric Disability in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom and Amandeep Sandhu's Sepia Leaves
Srikanth Mallavarapu
11 Mental Disability and Social Value in Michelle Cliff's Abeng
Drew Holladay
12 It Doesn't Add Up: Mental Illness in Paul Hornschemeier's Mother Come Home
Jessica Gross
About the Author: Elizabeth J. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where she directs the Medical Humanities program. She is co-editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (2012).
