Re/imagining depression : creative approaches to 'feeling bad' / Julie Hollenbach, Robin Alex McDonald, editors.
Hollenbach, Julie, 1985- editor.; McDonald, Robin Alex, editor.
2021
RC489.A7 R45 2021
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Title Re/imagining depression : creative approaches to 'feeling bad' / Julie Hollenbach, Robin Alex McDonald, editors.
ISBN 9783030805548 (electronic bk.)
3030805549 (electronic bk.)
9783030805531
3030805530
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80554-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-80554-8 doi
Call Number RC489.A7 R45 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.89/1656
Summary What is depression? An "imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?" "noonday demon?" In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and innovative representations of a range of experiences that might get called "depression." Texts such as Julia Kristevas Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989), Andrew Solomons The Noonday Demon (2000), Allie Broshs cartoons, "Adventures in Depression" (2011) and "Depression Part Two" (2013), and Lars von Triers film Melancholia (2011) each offer portraits of depression that deviate from, or altogether reject, the dominant language of depression that has been articulated by and within psychiatry. Most recently, Ann Cvetkovichs Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) has answered the authors own call for a multiplication of discourses on depression by positing crafting as one possible method of working through depression-as-"impasse." Inspired by Cvetkovichs efforts to re-shape the depressive experience itself and the critical ways in which we communicate this experience to others, Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to "Feeling Bad" harnesses critical theory, gender studies, critical race theory, affect theory, visual art, performance, film, television, poetry, literature, comics, and other media to generate new paradigms for thinking about the depressive experience. Through a combination of academic essays, prose, poetry, and interviews, this anthology aims to destabilize the idea of the mental health "expert" to instead demonstrate the diversity of affects, embodiments, rituals and behaviors that are often collapsed under the singular rubric of "depression." Julie Hollenbach (NSCAD University) is a material culture scholar, independent curator, and arts writer whose work addresses contemporary and historic queer and feminine everyday domestic creative cultures using a queer femininist, critical race, and decolonial methodology. Robin Alex McDonald (Nipissing University / OCAD University) is an academic, independent curator, and arts writer whose research spans queer and trans contemporary art, art and social justice, museum studies and alternative curatorial methodologies, affect theory; madness and disability studies, and theories of love, collectivity, and "the social."
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