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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.
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Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia NarrativesEds. Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow and Matthew Sweney
CONTENTS00 Acknowledgments
01 Heike Hartung and Rüdiger Kunow
Introduction: Alzheimer's Disease as a Gendered Affliction - Masculinities between Dementia Ventriloquism and Symptomatic ReadingsSection I: Conceptualizing Masculinities, Dementia Care and Embodiment02 Martina Zimmermann
Chapter 1: From a "Care-Free" Distance? Adult Sons about Their Parents with Dementia: A Cross-Cultural Enquiry03 Annette Leibing and Cintia Engel
Chapter 2: Masculinities in Brazil: Identity Tinkering and Dementia Care04 Melinda Niehus-Kettler
Chapter 3: Becoming One of the Others: Embodying and Eliminating Fabricated NaturesSection II: The Poetics of Dementia and Masculinity: Between Eulogy and Negation05 Katharina Fürholzer
Chapter 4: Living Oblivion: Poetic Narratives of Dementia and Fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup's Tarkovsky's Horses06 Joao Paulo Guimaraes and Daae Jung
Chapter 5: Anne Carson, Dementia and the Negative SelfSection III: Masculinity and Dementia in Film: Between Laughter and Violence07 Stefan Horlacher and Franziska Röber
Chapter 6: Of Bees, Boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer's in Contemporary European Film Comedies08 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 Narratives09 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 Monuments10 Teresa Requena-Pelegri
Chapter 9: Narratives of Parkinson's Dementia and Masculinities: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections11 Heike Hartung
Chapter 10: Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The 'Son's Book of the Father'12 Contributors
13 Index
A propos de l'auteur
Heike Hartung is an Independent Scholar in English Studies and has published widely in interdisciplinary ageing studies.
Recent publications include Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature and Embodied Narration. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies and co-editor of the Transcript Aging Studies publication series. http://www.heikehartung.de/en/
Rüdiger Kunow is a retired Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies program at Potsdam University. He is a founding member of ENAS, the European Network in Aging Studies, and currently involved in the MASCAGE project. He served as speaker of the international research project “Transnational American Studies”, of the European Union research and teaching project "Putting a Human Face on Diversity: The U.S. In/Of Europe", and was Director of the interdisciplinary research project
“Cultures in/of Mobility” at the School of Humanities of Potsdam University.
Until 2008 he held the position of the President of the German Association
for American Studies.
Matthew Sweney is an editor and translator, lecturer at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and researcher in the MASCAGE project “Ageing Masculinities” at the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. He earned his PhD in English and American Studies at Palacký University Olomouc. In addition to ageing and
masculinity, he writes on the overlaps of literature and cultural studies, and translates contemporary poetry from Czech to English.
Résumé
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.
Préface
This volume focuses on cultural representations of dementia as a disease of ageing masculinities and on male identity construction.
Texte suppl.
This volume brings together some of the finest scholars from the fields of critical age and dementia studies. It adds an important intersectional perspective to the cultural critique of Alzheimer’s representations in the public sphere.
