Applied Global Health Humanities : : Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel / / Fella Benabed.

• VerfasserIn: Benabed, Fella,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 175 p.)

This book highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, political, sociocultural, ethical, and environmental aspects of health by analyzing the experiences of characters who suffer from infectious diseases, mental disorders, or disabilities, and who seek holistic healing practices.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Global Health Humanities – Mapping the Terrain -- 1 Inclusivity in Global Health Humanities -- 2 Health Humanities and Global Anglophone Literature -- Part II: Infectious Diseases in the Global Anglophone Novel -- 1 Virgin Soil Epidemics and Unresolved Traumatic Grief in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks -- 2 The Double Helix of Medical Knowledge Systems in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium, and Discovery -- 3 AIDS: “Accelerated Inner Development Syndrome” in Meja Mwangi’s Crossroads: The Last Plague -- Part III: Mental Disorders in the Global Anglophone Novel -- 1 Lingering Wounds of Maternal Abandonment in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy -- 2 Nervous Conditions in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Trilogy -- 3 Migration Trauma and Presenile Dementia in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant -- Part IV: Disability in the Global Anglophone Novel -- 1 Beyond “Narrative Prosthesis”: Disability Interpretations in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India -- 2 Ableism and Disgrace in Salman Rushdie’s Shame -- 3 “Aesthetic Nervousness” in John M. Coetzee’s Slow Man -- Part V: Holistic Healing in the Global Anglophone Novel -- 1 Autopathography and the Healing Garden in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power -- 2 Curative Eco-narrative in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony -- 3 Eco-artistic Recovery in Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects