Schizophrene

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. - Passive Notes -- Schizophrene -- India: Notebooks -- A Healing Narrative -- Abiogenesis -- Electrobion -- Vertigo -- Partition -- India, Fragments. 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. - Publisher A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora