Jones Sophie A
Sophie A. Jones is a Wellcome ISSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, where she works across the fields of post-1945 US literature, gender studies, disability studies, and the critical medical humanities.
Am lit Hist. 2020 May;32(2):301-327. doi: 10.1093/alh/ajaa004. Epub 2020 May 22.
What does it mean to diagnose a literary work with attention deficit disorder (ADD)? This article traces how US literary minimalism came, in the late twentieth century, to be understood as a literary counterpart to the new diagnostic category of ADD. Pursuing some links between literary criticism and the third volume of the , the article shows how minimalism was seen to resemble the ADD patient because both were defined in terms of a descriptive surface that yielded no depths for expert excavation. Engaging with recent debates on the relative function and value of description and interpretation in literary studies, the article asks whether the notion of an ADD literary aesthetics, grounded in critical disability studies, might provide a route out of the dichotomy of suspicious analysis and reparative description. To pursue this question, the article performs a close reading of Mary Robison's (2001), a novel narrated by Money Breton, a woman with an ADD diagnosis. Drawing on the critical disability studies concept of cripistemology, the article shows how Robison's novel both dismantles the trope of minimalism's attention deficit and demands a reformulation of the relationship between writing and diagnosis.
将一部文学作品诊断为患有注意力缺陷障碍（ADD）意味着什么？本文追溯了美国文学极简主义在20世纪后期如何开始被理解为ADD这一新诊断类别在文学领域的对应物。通过探寻文学批评与[此处缺失书名]第三卷之间的一些联系，本文展示了极简主义如何被视为与ADD患者相似，因为两者都是根据一种缺乏深度、无法供专家挖掘的描述性表面来定义的。本文参与了近期关于文学研究中描述与阐释的相对功能和价值的辩论，探讨基于批判性残疾研究的ADD文学美学概念是否可能提供一条走出可疑分析与修复性描述二分法的途径。为了探讨这个问题，本文对玛丽·罗宾逊的《[此处缺失书名]》（2001年）进行了仔细研读，这部小说由被诊断患有ADD的女子莫妮·布雷顿叙述。借助批判性残疾研究中的残障认识论概念，本文展示了罗宾逊的小说如何既拆解了极简主义注意力缺陷的比喻，又要求重新构建写作与诊断之间的关系。
