The Politics of Dementia : Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives /

Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres - novels, auto/biographical writings, document...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deng, Maohui (Contribuidor), Gwyer, Kirstin (Contribuidor), Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lucenko, Kristina (Contribuidor), Medina, Raquel (Contribuidor), Schmidt, Nina (Contribuidor, Editor ), Thew, Emily (Contribuidor), Vermeulen, Pieter (Contribuidor), Vice, Sue (Contribuidor, Editor ), Walrath, Dana (Contribuidor), Zimmermann, Martina (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Colección:Media and cultural memory ; 32.
Temas:
Dementia.
Dementia in art.
Dementia in literature.
Dementia
Démence.
Démence dans l'art.
Démence dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Dementia in art
Dementia in literature
Political dimension of dementia.
cultural dimensions of forgetting, disavowal and repression.
dementia and history.
dementia and the holocaust.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Refracting History, Trauma and the Generations through the Prism of Dementia
  • Dementia and Meaning Making
  • In the Shadow of No Memories? The Role of Dementia in Contemporary Aftermath Writing
  • Homo Sacer / Homo Demens. The Epistemology of Dementia in Contemporary Literature and Theory
  • Dementia and the Politics of Memory in Fiction. From the Condition as Narrative Experiment to the Patient as Plot Device
  • Dementia's Paradoxical Relation to Buried Truths
  • Over/writing the Father? Dementia and the National Socialist Past in Tilman Jens's Demenz
  • "That I Could Live as Not Myself": Holocaust Survival, Trans Identity and Dementia in Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom
  • Dementia as Catalyst and Plot Device
  • Journeying into Uncertainty: Representations of Memory Loss in Kindertransport Fiction and Drama
  • Screen Memories in Literary and Graphic Dementia Narratives. Irene Dische's "The Doctor Needs a Home" and Stuart Campbell's These Memories Won't Last
  • Dementia and Genocide: An Artist's Approach
  • Transmuting Transgenerational Trauma: Dementia, Storytelling and Healing
  • Dementia as Ethical Challenge
  • Strange Bodies. Dementia and Legacies of Colonialism in Fiona McFarlane's The Night Guest
  • The Temporality and Politics of Language Lost and Found. Cinema, Dementia and the Entangled Histories of Singapore
  • Forgetting and Remembering in Post-dictatorial Argentina. Tiempo suspendido and the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking Featuring People Living with Dementia
  • Contributors
  • Index

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