Schizo : : the Liberatory Potential of Madness / / edited by Irina Lyubchenko, Fiona Ann Papps.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lyubchenko, Irina,; Papps, Fiona Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The term madness continues to perplex, to puzzle and to provoke. As such, questions about madness circulate around the place of madness across historical, cultural, and social boundaries. Regardless of the place that madness assumes in our world, madness can be understood as having the potential to liberate individuals from a society of control. Because madness can be understood not merely as one end of the binary of reason and unreason but as a form of art that allows us to transcend reason, it provides us with the ultimate liberation: to accept, know and understand the possibilities of a multiplicity of meanings and senses beyond reason, beyond the commonsense. And with such liberation, we gain the power not only to change our own lives, but society as a whole.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Irina Lyubchenko and Fiona Ann Papps -- Arcane Veritas: Understanding Madness through the Poetry of Experimental Film / Irina Lyubchenko -- Method to the Writer’s Madness: The Writer’s Capability of Multiplying Personalities and Integrating Them into the Narrative / Aleksandar Kordis -- Is Outsider Art an Outsider? / Isil Ezgi Celik -- ‘Her life, like her hair, had become unmanageable’: Women’s Hair as a Site for Madness / Fiona Ann Papps -- Mad, Bad and Sad: A Song-Cycle of Madwomen / Teresa Bell -- Widowhood and Attempted Forced Levirate Marriage as Precursors of Female Madness in Julie Okoh’s Our Wife Forever / Oluchi Joyce Igili -- Red Rooms, Attics and Female Antics: The Representation of Mad Women in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea / Anna Klambauer -- Madness, Disorientation, and Incorrigible Women: Eugene Ionesco and the Failures of the Anti-Theatre / Eileen S. Chanza Torres and Katherine A. Panushka -- Going to Pieces to Be Alive in Otherness: Madness as Only Chance for Sanity in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge / Doreen Bauschke -- ‘Mad to live, mad to talk’: Madness as Blessing in Howl and On the Road / Terri Jane Dow -- In the Name of Psy-Disciplines: The Development of Mental Hygiene in Republican China / Zheng Fei -- ‘A mind diseased’: Examining the Evolution of Madness Using Shakespeare’s Macbeth / Sarah Ahmed -- Images of Madness in William Blake’s Apocalyptic World / Ruxanda Topor -- Insanity and the Doppelgänger in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret / Rachel A. Sims -- The Madness of Wizard Harry: Insanity in the Harry Potter Series / Katarzyna Szmigiero -- The Madness of Making Sense: Madness and Integrative Knowledge / Ioana Zamfir and Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau.