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- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Contents
- Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique -- Introduction -- Diagnosis, Realism and the Reality of the Asylum -- Foucault and the Practical Critique -- The Roadmap to Resistance and Pluralism -- Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Psychiatry in Sarah Daniel's Head-Rot Holiday -- The Multiplicity of Interstices -- The Failure of Tactics -- The Failure and Necessity of Female Solidarity -- Diagnosis Through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange
- The Multivalence of Hegemony in Blue/Orange -- Language and Power in Blue/Orange -- The Spectacle of the Body of the 'Mad Person' -- The Political Construction of Christopher -- The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect -- The Mad Person in the White Coat: Uncertainties in Psychiatric Power -- The Sane in the Asylum, the Subjected Body of the 'Mad Person' -- A Visit to the Madhouse -- The Hospital Bed and the Question of Care -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space and Mad Experience -- Introduction
- Mad Experience, Hallucination, Theatre and Space -- Radical Spatialities and Radical Spaces -- Uncertain Meanings and the Family in The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland -- Open Dialogue, Therapy, Representation -- Tolerating Uncertainty -- The Family Show -- Hallucination: Family and Madness Coming Together -- Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in The Skriker -- Fairy of Nature or Madness: A Confusion of Meanings -- Far, Far, Away: Playing with the Fairytale -- Away with the Fairies: The Magical and the Real in Material Space
- Madness Through Magical Thinking -- Smoke in Your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality and Invisible Violence in Debbie Tucker green's nut -- Smoke and Light: Invisible Violence in nut -- Realism, the Ex-Wife, Gender and Madness -- Intersectionality and Space -- New Spatialities of Madness: The Possibility of Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad -- Introduction -- Suicidology: Durkheim, Sociology and Politicized Accounts -- Ethical Relations to the Individual Suicide Event
- The Possibility of Witnessing -- Witnessing and Performance -- Witnessing and Suicide in Performance -- Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis -- Testimony: Sight and Light -- Psychiatry and the Absence of the Witness -- The Theatre and the Audience, Possibilities of Sight and Witnessing -- What's My Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's Fragile -- Within the Leap, Precarity, Interaction -- Multiplicities of Suicide Within the Leap -- What's My Motivation: Suicide and Audience Interaction -- Witnessing and the Self-Reflexive Gaze
- ISBN
- 9783030797829
- 3030797821
- 3030797813 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 10.1007/978-3-030-79782-9
- OCLC
- om1106149168
- Author
Venn, Jon, author.
- Title
Madness in contemporary British theatre : resistances and representations / Jon Venn.
- Publisher
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- Copyright Date
©2021
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 10, 2021).
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- Chronological Term
1900-2099
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- Other Form:
Print version: VENN, JON. MADNESS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH THEATRE. [S.l.] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2021 3030797813
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1007/978-3-030-79782-9 doi