Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350230637
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9781350230620
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9781350230606
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury studies in the humanities, ageing and later life
Content:
"Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies for the first time, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. In the cultural context of many societies, Alzheimer's disease has come to represent the 'dark side' of longevity in the 21st century. While the dream of a long life has become a real possibility for many people, it has simultaneously given rise to new anxieties focused on cultural fears of 'demented' old age. In expert discourse as well as in personal accounts, Alzheimer's has produced what might be called a 'master narrative' that limits representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach with a gendered perspective, the essays in this volume engage with Alzheimer's as a disease of ageing masculinities, drawing on representations of the disease in many different cultural contexts. Examining a broad range of source material, including memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, this book looks at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Heike Hartung (University of Graz, Austria) Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam University, Germany) and Matthew Sweney (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic): Introduction: Representational Paternalism? Alzheimer's Narratives in Film and Fiction -- 1. Michaela Schrage-Früh (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland): Stories of Exile and Home -- 2. João Paulo Guimarães (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Daae Jung (University at Buffalo, Canada): Anne Carson, Dementia and the Fragmented Self -- 3. Katharina Fürholzer (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Forgotten Fatherhood -- 4. Cintia Engel (University of Brasilia, Brazil) and Annette Leibing (University of Montreal, Canada): Male Dementia Care -- 5. Raquel Medina (Aston University, UK): Memorizing the Past to fight Alzheimer's Disease Oblivion -- 6. Melinda Niehus-Kettler (University of Potsdam, Germany): Becoming One of the Others -- 7. Martina Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt, Germany/King's College London, UK): From a 'Care-Free' Distance? Adult Sons about their Ageing Parents -- 8.Lisa-Nike Bühring (University of Gloucestershire, UK): The Significance of Individual Agency in the Life-Course -- Narratives of Older German Men -- 9. Stefan Horlacher and Franziska Röber (TU Dresden, Germany): 'The Sweet Smell of Harmony' -- 10. Heike Hartung (University of Graz, Austria): Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care -- 11. Teresa Requena-Pelegrí (Unversitat de Barcelona, Spain): Narratives of Parkinson's Dementia and Masculinities -- 12. Matthew Sweney (University of Graz, Austria): The Poetry of Dementia.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350230613
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350237483
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ageing masculinities, Alzheimer's and dementia narratives London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 ISBN 9781350230613
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350230618
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.5040/9781350230637
Author information:
Kunow, Rüdiger
Author information:
Hartung, Heike
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