Schizophrene

by Bhanu Kapil

Overview

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatric enquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Who has not yet arrived and never will? Towards an arrival without being, this notebook-book returns a body to a site, the shards re-forming in mid-air: for an instant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984459865
Publisher:	Nightboat Books
Publication date:	09/19/2011
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

BHANU KAPIL is a British-born writer of Indian origin who lives in Colorado. She is the author of three full-length collections of experimental prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Incubation: a space for monsters, and humanimal [a project for future children].

Table of Contents

Passive Notes
Schizophrene
India: Notebooks
A Healing Narrative
Abiogenesis
Electrobion
Vertigo
Partition
India, Fragments
Acknowledgements and Quick Notes

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