What is depression? An "imagined sun, bright and black at the same
time?" A "noonday demon?" In literature, poetry, comics, visual
art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come
into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical
politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and
metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and innovative
representations of a range of experiences that might get called
"depression." Texts such as Julia Kristeva's Black Sun: Depression
and Melancholia (1989), Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon (2000),
Allie Brosh's cartoons, "Adventures in Depression" (2011) and
"Depression Part Two" (2013), and Lars von Trier's film Melancholia
(2011) each offer portraits of depression that deviate from, or
altogether reject, the dominant language of depression that has
been articulated by and within psychiatry. Most recently, Ann
Cvetkovich's Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) has answered the
author's own call for a multiplication of discourses on depression
by positing crafting as one possible method of working through
depression-as-"impasse." Inspired by Cvetkovich's efforts to
re-shape the depressive experience itself and the critical ways in
which we communicate this experience to others, Re/Imagining
Depression: Creative Approaches to "Feeling Bad" harnesses critical
theory, gender studies, critical race theory, affect theory, visual
art, performance, film, television, poetry, literature, comics, and
other media to generate new paradigms for thinking about the
depressive experience. Through a combination of academic essays,
prose, poetry, and interviews, this anthology aims to destabilize
the idea of the mental health "expert" to instead demonstrate the
diversity of affects, embodiments, rituals and behaviors that are
often collapsed under the singular rubric of "depression."
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