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, do...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter
2021.
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| Colección: | Media and cultural memory ;
Volume 32. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745175906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
