The “bull goose looney” as a Totem Guide for Chief’s Writing Himself to Freedom
This paper examines the institutionalisation of psychiatric treatment in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Taking up the work of Michel Foucault, the paper examines how those suffering from mental illness were classified as disruptive and unfit for society, subsequently labelled mad and i...
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| Language: | English |
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Charles University
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2022-0006 |