The visibility of self-harm in fiction and media more broadly is frequently both feared and critiqued. This logic that “if you don’t see it, you won’t do it” (McWade, 2019) is grounded in concerns of… Read More »Recognition, relationality, and care in identification with self-harm in fiction
In this paper, I aim to analyze Miriam Toews’ depiction of the treatment received by psychiatric patients in her semi-autobiographical works Swing Low (2000) and All My Puny Sorrows (2014), based respectively on her father… Read More »“Why won’t you behave?” : the Infantilization of the Psychiatric Patient in Miriam Toews’ Books
The politics of visibility draws out the contours of suicide. We can apprehend how the conceptualization of suicide is fought through the politics of visibility: what can be seen across the body of the suicide,… Read More »Must I Go? : Invisibility, Suicidality, and the Performance of Mourning in Contemporary Fiction