Abstract
Brewer provides a clear overview of the connection points and rifts between disability studies and mad studies, which often go unstated in the literature; this chapter is, therefore, useful for readers new to either field. By analyzing scholarship from three authors who strategically identify as both disabled and mad, Katie Aubrecht, Margaret Price, and A.J. Withers, Brewer argues that claiming both identities provides a position from which critique of both fields is possible. She concludes that these authors model coalitional scholarship using personal narrative to trouble divisions between who can claim mad or disabled identities. Brewer calls for more scholars to share their complex identifications with disability studies and mad studies, and she weaves her own personal narrative throughout this chapter.
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Brewer, E. (2018). Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled. In: Donaldson, E.J. (eds) Literatures of Madness. Literary Disability Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92666-7_2
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