Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Sweney, Matthew; Kunow, Ruediger; Hartung, Heike

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

02/2022

224

Dura

Inglês

9781350230613

15 a 20 dias

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Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
Eds. Heike Hartung, Ruediger Kunow and Matthew Sweney
CONTENTS
00 Acknowledgments

01 Heike Hartung and Ruediger 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 Fuerholzer
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 Roeber
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-Frueh
Chapter 8: Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's Der alte Koenig 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
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Alzheimer's disease; Bildungsroman in reverse; gender; masculinity; master narrative of dementia; dementia ventriloquism; symptomatic readings; cultural critique; Elinor Fuchs; Samuel Beckett; carer; death; documentary; identity; Parkinson's; later life