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5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient: Challenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed

  • Pascale Antolin (author)
Chapter of: Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance(pp. 123–146)

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Title5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient
SubtitleChallenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed
ContributorPascale Antolin (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0303.05
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0303/chapters/10.11647/obp.0303.05
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightPascale Antolin
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2022-10-11
Short abstractThis chapter shows to what extent the undiagnosed condition of Ferris’s main protagonist in The Unnamed provokes a questioning of medical classifications and contemporary neurological reduction.
Long abstractThis chapter shows to what extent the undiagnosed condition of Ferris’s main protagonist in The Unnamed provokes a questioning of medical classifications and contemporary neurological reduction. With his compulsive walking, the lawyer turns into a tramp. As he is both well-off and homeless, ‘normate’ and disabled, he destabilizes social categories. Writing a syndrome novel without any identified syndrome, borrowing from Dickinson’s poetry and the Naturalist novel, Ferris also challenges literary genres and conventions.
Page rangepp. 123–146
LanguageEnglish (Original)