“Challenging Borders: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a Subversive Disability Memoir”

This article analyses Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a subversive memoir and “counter-diagnosis,” relying on disability studies, women studies and critical discourse analysis. Taking advantage of the metaphoric adjective “borderline” in her diagnosis of “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD)...

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Main Author: Pascale Antolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2020-06-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16051
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