Introduction: Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: Twenty-First Century ‘American’ Perspectives

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: Twenty-First Century ‘American’ Perspectives 1
5. Part I: Disability and Life Narratives
6. Life Writing, Writing Life: Autobiography, Neoliberalism, and Disability in Mitchell Levitz’s and Jason Kingsley’s Count Us In 19
7. Reflecting ‘Disability’: Illness and Literary Diagnosis in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007) 37
8. “There’re two kinds of psychosis”: Mental Illness as Metaphor in the Worlds of Charlie Kaufman 59
9. When the System Fails – How Dementia Undermines the Cultural Narrative of the Mind 81
10. Part II: Disability, Trauma, and Healing
11. “Ah can’t prevent it. Is in we blood.” Bodymind Expressions of Ancestral Trauma, Depression, and Healing in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s, Patsy (2019) 99
12. Transcending Trauma: Decolonial Feminist Healing in the Novels Birdie (2015) by Tracey Lindberg and The Break (2016) by Katharena Vermette 121
13. Part III: Disability, Gender, and Intersectionality
14. Much-Needed Rest? Female Agency and the Rest Cure in Treatments of Depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation 139
15. An Intersectional Reading of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”: Exploring the Entanglements of Race, Gender, Class and Disability 161
16. Deer Women: Cut in The Straight Story. An Ecofeminist Reading of Road Movies and Roads 177
17. Part IV: Disability, Body-Ability, Eco-Ability, and Speciesism
18. Civil War “Supercrip”: John Smith’s Funny ??? Adventures as a One-Legged Soldier 195
19. The Abilities of the Body: A Study from the Theater 211
20. Eco-Ability as Narrative Prosthesis: Narrating Disability along Ecocide and Environmental Resistance in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were 227
21. Words Unspoken – Thinking about Intersections of Ableism and Speciesism 239
22. About the Authors 263
23. Index 267