The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt’s Art of Mingling

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Literary Creation and Communication
5. Why One Story and Not Another? 11
6. The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt’s Art of Mingling 27
7. Reality Bites: Fractured Narrative and Author-Reader Interaction in Siri Hustvedt’s Work 39
8. “A carnival in hell”: Representations of New York City in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels 51
9. The Shaking Woman in the Media: Life Writing and Neuroscience 67
10. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
11. The No Truth about Siri 83
12. Siri’s Timequakes 99
13. The Self Is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt’s Artists 113
14. Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art(s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt’s Work 133
15. Wounding Words 153
16. Medicine and Narrative
17. The Great Glazed Tank of Art: From the Real to the Imaginary with Siri Hustvedt 185
18. “No self is an island”: Doctor-Patient Relationships in Siri Hustvedt’s Work 193
19. Mysterious Illness and the Acceptance of Ambiguity 225
20. In Search of a Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman 237
21. “The image makers”: Reality Constitution and the Role of Autism in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World 249
22. Vision, Perception, and Power
23. “What fascinate me are the journeys that begin with looking and only looking”: Siri Hustvedt’s Visual Imagination 265
24. “I look and sometimes I see”: The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels 281
25. “Openings that can’t be closed”: Patterns of Surveillance Culture in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels 295
26. Portraits of the (Post‐)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt’s Fiction 311
27. Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self
28. History and Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American 329
29. Crisis of Knowledge: Trauma in The Sorrows of an American 341
30. “The wounded psyche is not a broken leg”: Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt’s Work 357
31. Embodied Memories, Embodied Meanings: Mind, Matter, and Place in the Works of Siri Hustvedt 373
32. “We have different selves over the course of a life, but even all at once”: The Multiple Self and Cultural Multiple Personality in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World 389
33. Interview with Siri Hustvedt
34. “Deceiving the reader into the truth”: A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt about The Blazing World (2014) 409
35. List of Contributors 423