Sounding Madness: The Ethics of Listening in Janet Frame's Faces in the Water

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dc.contributor.advisorVanstone, Gail
dc.contributor.authorFoisy, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T12:53:35Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T12:53:35Z
dc.date.copyright2021-04
dc.date.issued2021-07-06
dc.date.updated2021-07-06T12:53:34Z
dc.degree.disciplineHumanities
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractSounding Madness: The Ethics of Listening in Janet Frames Faces in the Water is a transdisciplinary sonic exploration of the historical, cultural, and theoretical concerns surrounding electroshocks (AKA electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) impact on memory, its controversial accusations of erasure and its current revival as a miracle (Peck 2) treatment for complex trauma (PTSD). My project employs sound as a verb (Voegelin 17) for voicing claims of memory erasure (Andre 6) by women ECT survivors that have been named groundless (Fink 17) by psychiatrists. To do so, I propose a sonic interpretation of Janet Frames 1961 novel Faces in the Water, a fictional account of her twelve-year stay in New Zealand mental institutions and 200 electroshock treatments in the late 1940s-1950s, because it depicts a rich sonic landscape of shock (treatment as trauma) and madness as a new kind of music (77). Since Frame prioritizes sound as a literary device, I weave her voice within a larger historical sonic context, dating back to Victorian medical electricity, the soundscape of the asylum and the sounds of contemporary Mad activism. Utilizing sound art as a Research-Creation method that employs and embodies diverse theories of listening (from psychoanalytic to phenomenological), I aim to create a sonic space for listening otherwise (Levinas, Lispari, Voegelin, Todd) towards Mad dialogical and epistemological justice.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38494
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEthics
dc.subject.keywordsPsychiatric Survivor Narratives
dc.subject.keywordsJanet Frame
dc.subject.keywordsHealth Humanities
dc.subject.keywordsMad Studies
dc.subject.keywordsMemory Studies
dc.subject.keywordsSound Art
dc.subject.keywordsDialogical Ethics
dc.subject.keywordsLife Writing
dc.subject.keywordsListening
dc.subject.keywordsElectroshock
dc.subject.keywordsElectroconvulsive Therapy
dc.subject.keywordsECT
dc.subject.keywordsMemory Erasure
dc.titleSounding Madness: The Ethics of Listening in Janet Frame's Faces in the Water
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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