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Title
The poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writing / Martina Zimmermann.
ISBN
9783319443881 (electronic book)
3319443887
9783319443874
3319443879
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 167 pages)
Call Number
PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.04
Summary
This 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 14, 2017).
Series
Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 3319443879
Introduction: 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.
