Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako

Contemporary Narratives of Dementia (eBook, ePUB)

Ethics, Ageing, Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help us to interrogate the cultural discourse of dementia.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317208235
• Artikelnr.: 55071928

Autorenporträt

Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has research interests in contemporary women's writing, feminism and literary gerontology. She is the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative (DCN) network.

Katsura Sako is Associate Professor of English, Keio University, Japan. Her main field of research is in post-war/contemporary British literature and she has interests in gender, ageing and illness. She is a steering committee of the DCN network.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Discourse of Dementia
Narrativising Dementia
Past, Present and Future in Narratives of Dementia
Care and Vulnerability in Narratives of Dementia
Structure of the book
Conclusion
Chapter One: A Story of One's Own: Auto/Biographies of Dementia
Part One: Autosomatographies: Writing from the Inside
Part Two: Somatographies: Familial Stories
The Burden of Care: Jan's Story and Keeper
Family History and Genealogy: The Last of His Mind and Remind Me Who I Am,
Again
Graphic Life Writing
Chapter Two: Time, Narrative and Life with Dementia
Part One: Time and Memory in Barney's Version and The Wilderness
Part Two: Care and family stories in The Memory Book and The One with the
News
Chapter Three: Dementia and Narratives of Detection
Part One: Detection, Dementia and Loss
Part Two: Dementia and Care in Women's Detective Narratives
Chapter Four: Familial Tales: Inheritance and Generational Time
Part One: Family History and Generational Time: Grace and Mary, Remember
Remember, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Story of Forgetting and Essex
County
Part Two: Bequeathing the Future: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and We Are
Not Ourselves
Chapter Five: Dementia in Children's Picturebooks
Children's Literature
Continuity and Change in Picturebooks about Dementia
Conclusion
Bibliography