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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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