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    Schizophrene
    Schizophrene
    Schizophrene
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    Schizophrene

    By Bhanu Kapil

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    Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatric enquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Who has not yet arrived and never will? Towards an arrival without being, this notebook-book returns a body to a site, the shards re-forming in mid-air: for an instant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9781643620473
    Schizophrene
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    Bhanu Kapil

    Bhanu Kapil is the author of several full-length collections, most recently How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society selection. Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, earned a BA from Loughborough University and an MA in English Literature from SUNY Brockport. A Fellow of Churchill College (University of Cambridge), Kapil was elected in 2022 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Other recognitions include a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors (UK). For twenty years, Kapil taught seminars on performance, contemplative practice, poetry, anti-memoir, and hybrid forms at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. According to the poet Jenny Zhang, ‘Bhanu has a way of speaking to those of us who move through life feeling at once alien and recognizable, she speaks to us—the cyborgs, the aliens, the displaced, the feral, the untamed.’

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      SCHIZOPHRENE

      SCHIZOPHRENE

      Bhanu Kapil

      NIGHTBOAT BOOKS . 2011

      CALLICOON, NEW YORK

      CONTENTS

      PASSIVE NOTES

      1.  SCHIZOPHRENE

      2.  INDIA: NOTEBOOKS

      3.  A HEALING NARRATIVE

      4.  ABIOGENESIS

      5.  ELECTROBION

      6.  VERTIGO

      7.  PARTITION

      8.  INDIA, FRAGMENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and QUICK NOTES

      PASSIVE NOTES:

      For some years, I tried to write an epic on Partition and its trans-generational effects: the high incidence of schizophrenia in diasporic Indian and Pakistani communties; the parallel social history of domestic violence, relational disorders, and so on. Towards the end of this project, I felt the great strength of the page: its ability, as a fibrous surface, to deflect the point of my pen. The paper, and then the screen, as weirdly reflective, repelling the ink or the touch. On the night I knew my book had failed, I threw it — in the form of a notebook, a hand-written final draft — into the garden of my house in Colorado. Christmas Eve, 2007. It snowed that winter and into the spring; before the weather turned truly warm, I retrieved my notes, and began to write again, from the fragments, the phrases and lines

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