000827383 000__ 03436cam\a2200505\i\4500 000827383 001__ 827383 000827383 005__ 20230306144612.0 000827383 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000827383 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000827383 008__ 171202s2017\\\\enk\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000827383 010__ $$a 2016952436 000827383 0167_ $$a101718040$$2DNLM 000827383 020__ $$a9783319443881$$q(electronic book) 000827383 020__ $$a3319443887 000827383 020__ $$z9783319443874 000827383 020__ $$z3319443879 000827383 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)ocn993681848 000827383 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)993681848 000827383 040__ $$aNLM$$beng$$erda$$cNLM$$dAZU$$dINA$$dDKDLA$$dOCLCF$$dYDX$$dLND 000827383 042__ $$apcc 000827383 049__ $$aISEA 000827383 050_4 $$aPN770-PN779 000827383 08204 $$a809.04$$223 000827383 1001_ $$aZimmermann, Martina$$c(Researcher in health humanities),$$eauthor. 000827383 24514 $$aThe poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writing /$$cMartina Zimmermann. 000827383 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2017] 000827383 300__ $$a1 online resource (viii, 167 pages) 000827383 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000827383 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000827383 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000827383 4901_ $$aPalgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine 000827383 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000827383 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy -- Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females? -- Chapter 2: From a "Care-Free" Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts -- Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative -- Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer's Disease -- Conclusion: Dementia Narratives - Shifter of Perspectives and Values -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Index. 000827383 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000827383 5203_ $$aThis is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer's narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients' articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's patients. 000827383 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 14, 2017). 000827383 650_0 $$aLiterature. 000827383 650_0 $$aLiterature, Modern$$y20th century. 000827383 650_0 $$aBritish literature. 000827383 77608 $$iPrint version: $$z9783319443874$$z3319443879$$w(OCoLC)953598305 000827383 830_0 $$aPalgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. 000827383 852__ $$bebk 000827383 85640 $$3SpringerLink$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-44388-1$$zOnline Access$$91397441.1 000827383 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:827383$$pGLOBAL_SET 000827383 980__ $$aEBOOK 000827383 980__ $$aBIB 000827383 982__ $$aEbook 000827383 983__ $$aOnline 000827383 994__ $$a92$$bISE