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Asylum Piece and Other Stories by Anna Kavan 📙✔️
In her fiction and journalism Kavan promoted a radical politics of madness, giving voice to the disenfranchised and marginalized psychiatric patient and presaging the anti-psychiatry movement.  Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kavan

Asylum Piece and Other Stories by Anna Kavan - Borrow on Archive  https://archive.org/details/asylumpieceother0000anna
Madness and Literature Review  http://madnessandliterature.org/literature.php?id=218&resultpage=1
YouTube - Machines in the Head review  https://youtu.be/355qdvpYDfU?si=ZX8Oo7T-Y8p-Szp2
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.
Genre-bending and experimental writing - Kavan's work is difficult to situate in fixed literary categories; the scope of her work shows her experimenting with realism, surrealism and absurdism. Her work often abandons linear plot and narrative structure and portrays nameless landscapes and nameless characters. Her disruptive narratives are close to the technique of stream of consciousness associated with modernist novelists.
Politics of madness - In her fiction and journalism Kavan promoted a radical politics of madness, giving voice to the disenfranchised and marginalized psychiatric patient and presaging the anti-psychiatry movement.  Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kavan
Dalkey Archive Press  https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/2013/09/13/anna-kavan/


Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece
Shepherd
https://shepherd.com/book/asylum-piece

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kavan
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939 as both her pen name and her legal identity. She is most well-known for her 1967 novel, Ice, published just a year before her death.
Genre-bending and experimental writing
Kavan's work is difficult to situate in fixed literary categories; the scope of her work shows her experimenting with realism, surrealism and absurdism. Her work often abandons linear plot and narrative structure and portrays nameless landscapes and nameless characters. Her disruptive narratives are close to the technique of stream of consciousness associated with modernist novelists. Her best-known novel Ice has been described as slipstream, a non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries, where Borges' Fictions, Calvino's Invisible Cities or Ballard's Crash are cited as 'canon of slipstream writing'.
Politics of madness
In her fiction and journalism Kavan promoted a radical politics of madness, giving voice to the disenfranchised and marginalized psychiatric patient and presaging the anti-psychiatry movement.

madnessandliterature Review and Significant Quotes
http://madnessandliterature.org/literature.php?id=218&resultpage=1
This collection of short stories was Anna Kavan’s first publication under the name of one of her own fictional characters, she had previously published under the name Helen Ferguson.  The stories are loosely connected, featuring a first person narrator experiencing severe depression and suffering either a series of surreal persecutions or major paranoia.  These chapters are interrupted by a sequence of tales about the inmates of a Swiss psychiatric clinic.  Kavan’s prose is sparse and bleak, typically combining prosaic realism with dream-like fantasy.  This collection of stories was the beginning of her writing in this style, which has been described as Kafkaesque.

Faces in the water by Janet Frame  Borrow on Archive 📙✔️
https://archive.org/details/facesinwater00fram/mode/2up
YouTube Book review   https://youtu.be/S-QQlAyJexc?si=zYKNzBQ9lHbV8n0B
Janet Frame  https://janetframe.co.nz/index.php/biography
Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame
Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize.

Faces in the water by Janet Frame
Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize.
Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An angel at my table : the complete autobiography by Frame, Janet
Borrow on Archive
https://archive.org/details/angelatmytableco0000fram

Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/50302.Janet_Frame

Bookwyrm
https://bookwyrm.social/book/255014/s/faces-in-the-water
Counterpoint press
https://www.counterpointpress.com/bookauthor/janet-frame/

Andrew Skull 📗
Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine
by Scull, Andrew, 1946-
Archive 🏛️
https://archive.org/details/madnessinciviliz0000scul