Lonely Children in the Mirror: Isolation, Young People’s Mental Health and Literary Chronotopes. Mizuki Tsujimura’s award-winning novel, Kagami no Kojou, was published in Japan in 2017 and translated into English as Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Philip Gabriel in 2021 (Tsujimura, 2021). The novel is a fantasy adventure which begins when the protagonist, Kokoro,…
Author: Gita Ralleigh
Gita Ralleigh is a writer, poet and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. Her work has been published by Wasafiri, Bellevue Literary Review, Magma Poetry and The Rialto among others. Her chapbooks are A Terrible Thing, (Bad Betty Press, 2020) and Siren, (Broken Sleep Books 2022). She holds an MA in Creative Writing, an MSc in Medical Humanities and is a lecturer in Creative Writing for undergraduates at Imperial College, London. You can find her as @storyvilled on twitter.
A Different Gaze
Foucault was a French philosopher known for his interrogation of knowledge and structures of power. In Birth of the Clinic (1973) he described how the medical gaze arose from 18th-century dissection, which exposed ‘what for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible’ developing further through 19th-century pathological anatomy, which reduced…
On the Lyric Essay as Illness Narrative
Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public. A piece of inside projected to the outside. Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound (Glass, Irony and God) As a doctor who also teaches creative writing, I am aware that features of narrative such as…