Publikation: Monographie

Ageing masculinities, Alzheimer's and dementia narratives

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Titel	Ageing masculinities, Alzheimer's and dementia narratives
Erscheinungsjahr	2022
Verlag	Bloomsbury Academic
Verlagsort	London
Seitenzahl	203
Serie	Bloomsbury studies in the humanities, ageing and later life
Publikationsform	Elektronische Ressource
Publikationsart	Monographie
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN	978-1-350-23063-7
DOI	10.5040/9781350230637
Letzte Änderung	14.03.2023 06:02:29
Bearbeitungsstatus	durch UB Rostock abschließend validiert
Dauerhafte URL	http://purl.uni-rostock.de/fodb/pub/69600
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Abstract

"Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies for the first time, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. In the cultural context of many societies, Alzheimer's disease has come to represent the 'dark side' of longevity in the 21st century. While the dream of a long life has become a real possibility for many people, it has simultaneously given rise to new anxieties focused on cultural fears of 'demented' old age. In expert discourse as well as in personal accounts, Alzheimer's has produced what might be called a 'master narrative' that limits representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach with a gendered perspective, the essays in this volume engage with Alzheimer's as a disease of ageing masculinities, drawing on representations of the disease in many different cultural contexts. Examining a broad range of source material, including memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, this book looks at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen."--

Untergeordnete Publikationen

Seite	1 –	16	Introduction: Alzheimer's disease as a gendered affliction: masculinities between dementia ventriloquism and symptomatic readings
Seite	179 –	195	Illness memoirs, ageing masculinities and care: the 'son's book of the father'

Autoren

Hartung, Heike

Kunow, Rüdiger

Sweney, Matthew

Einrichtung

PHF/Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik (IAA)