Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Author:   Heike Hartung (University of Graz, Austria) ,  Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam University, Germany) ,  Matthew Sweney (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)
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9781350230613


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
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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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Author:   Heike Hartung (University of Graz, Austria) ,  Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam University, Germany) ,  Matthew Sweney (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781350230613


ISBN 10:   1350230618
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narratives 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

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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. * Aagje Swinnen, Professor with Specialized Remit in Aging Studies, Maastricht University, the Netherlands *


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. * Aagje Swinnen, Professor with Specialized Remit in Aging Studies, Maastricht University, the Netherlands *


This edited book comprises some outstanding contributions whose contents can be effectively implemented in academic seminars of Medical Humanities. … The book has the merit of extending our understanding of what the spectrum of dementia is, how it can be approached and communicated inside and outside of academia. What is more, it is an appeal for everyone to recognize people with dementia and meet them on their own terms. * Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin * 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. * Aagje Swinnen, Professor with Specialized Remit in Aging Studies, Maastricht University, the Netherlands * [A] unique array of perspectives on Alzheimer's disease ... powerful, poetic images of dementia * CHOICE *


Author Information

Heike Hartung 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. Rüdiger Kunow is a retired Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies program at Potsdam University, Germany. He is a founding member of ENAS, the European Network in Aging Studies, and currently involved in the MASCAGE project. 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, Czech Republic.

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