How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

by LaMarr Jurelle Bruce

Book Overview

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as "rage," and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478010878
• ISBN13: 9781478010876
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"