Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.
Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.
Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, also published by Duke University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir) Going Down 29 Swimming 43 The Return 62 Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74 Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay) 1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85 2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression 115 3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice 154 Epilogue 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Illustration Credits 265 Index 267
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir) Going Down 29 Swimming 43 The Return 62 Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74 Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay) 1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85 2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression 115 3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice 154 Epilogue 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Illustration Credits 265 Index 267
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