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Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
Heike Hartung (Anthology Editor) , Rüdiger Kunow (Anthology Editor) , Matthew Sweney (Anthology Editor)
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Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
Heike Hartung (Anthology Editor) , Rüdiger Kunow (Anthology Editor) , Matthew Sweney (Anthology Editor)
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Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this open access book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease.
Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease.
They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria.
Table of Contents
Eds. Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow and Matthew Sweney
CONTENTS
00 Acknowledgments
01 Heike Hartung and Rüdiger Kunow
Introduction:
Alzheimer's Disease as a Gendered Affliction – Masculinities between Dementia Ventriloquism and Symptomatic Readings
Section I: Conceptualizing Masculinities, Dementia Care and Embodiment
02 Martina Zimmermann
Chapter 1: From a “Care-Free” Distance? Adult Sons about Their Parents with Dementia: A Cross-Cultural Enquiry
03 Annette Leibing and Cintia Engel
Chapter 2: Masculinities in Brazil: Identity Tinkering and Dementia Care
04 Melinda Niehus-Kettler
Chapter 3: Becoming One of the Others: Embodying and Eliminating Fabricated Natures
Section II: The Poetics of Dementia and Masculinity: Between Eulogy and Negation
05 Katharina Fürholzer
Chapter 4: Living Oblivion: Poetic Narratives of Dementia and Fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup's Tarkovsky's Horses
06 Joao Paulo Guimaraes and Daae Jung
Chapter 5: Anne Carson, Dementia and the Negative Self
Section III: Masculinity and Dementia in Film: Between Laughter and Violence
07 Stefan Horlacher and Franziska Röber
Chapter 6: Of Bees, Boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer's in Contemporary European Film Comedies
08 Raquel Medina
Chapter 7: Writing the Past to Fight Alzheimer's Disease: Masculinity, Temporality, and Agency in Memoir of a Murderer
Section IV: Perspectives on Masculinity and Dementia in Memoirs and Fictional Narratives
09 Michaela Schrage-Früh
Chapter 8: Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney's Minor Monuments
10 Teresa Requena-Pelegri
Chapter 9: Narratives of Parkinson's Dementia and Masculinities: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
11 Heike Hartung
Chapter 10: Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The 'Son's Book of the Father'
12 Contributors
13 Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 24 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350237483 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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