Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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. See Less

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