Description
| Product ID: | 9781032163505 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Literature |
| Title: | Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine |
| Authors: | Author: Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Sweetha Saji |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Linguistics, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Reference, guides and reviews, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Sociology, Medical sociology, Psychiatry, linguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Sociology, Medical sociology, Psychiatry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. In this context, by using Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this study uncovers the broad spectrum of the mentally ills’ experiences, a relatively undertheorised area in medical humanities. The aim is to demonstrate that mentally ill people are often represented as either grotesquely exaggerated or overly romanticised across diverse media and biomedical discourses. Further, they have been disparaged as emotionally drained and unreasonable individuals, incapable of active social engagements and against the healthy/sane society. The study also aims to unsettle the sanity/insanity binary and its related patterns of fixed categories of normal/abnormal, which depersonalise the mentally ill by critically analysing seven graphic narratives on mental illness. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-31 |
