Mutant Matter and Memory: Different Bodily Foundations in Ward One of Toledo, Ohio

Abstract

Following in the line of feminist literary theorists from Helen Cixous and Catherine Clement (1986) to Patti Lather (2007), the main goal of this work is to “get lost”(Lather, 2007): to find new ways of saying meaning through images and writing. Images and text appear together on the page to provoke a sense of movement and disjuncture between modes of “showing seeing” (Mitchell, 2002). New meanings are coaxed out of the gaps between image and text, The text is itself a recombinant form of scientific discourse, grounded ethnography, personal narrative and metafiction.