“Challenging Borders: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a Subversive Disability Memoir”
This article analyses Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a subversive memoir and “counter-diagnosis,” relying on disability studies, women studies and critical discourse analysis. Taking advantage of the metaphoric adjective “borderline” in her diagnosis of “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD)...
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| Main Author: | Pascale Antolin |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2020-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16051 |
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