Ann Cvetkovich

Depression

A Public Feeling

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352389
• ISBN-10: 0822352389
• Artikelnr.: 35533465

Autorenporträt

Ann Cvetkovich

Inhaltsangabe

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