Popularizing Dementia Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness Aagje Swinnen, Mark Schweda

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swinnen, Aagje <p>Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University, Netherlands</p>, Editor.

Schweda, Mark <p>Mark Schweda, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Series:

Aging studies ; Volume 6.

Aging Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia.

Culture.

Film.

Literature.

Arts.

Media.

Aging Studies.

Cultural Studies.

General Literature Studies.

British Studies.

Local Subjects:

Dementia.

Culture.

Film.

Literature.

Arts.

Media.

Aging Studies.

Cultural Studies.

General Literature Studies.

British Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Swinnen/Schweda (eds.), Popularizing Dementia Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2015

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Aagje Swinnen (Dr.) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Art of Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Mark Schweda (Dr.) is Research Associate at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany.

Summary:

How are individual and social ideas of late-onset dementia shaped and negotiated in film, literature, the arts, and the media? And how can the symbolic forms provided by popular culture be adopted and transformed by those affected in order to express their own perspectives? This international and interdisciplinary volume summarizes central current research trends and opens new theoretical and empirical perspectives on dementia in popular culture. It includes contributions by internationally renowned scholars from the humanities, social and cultural gerontology, age(ing) studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and bioethics.Contributions by Lucy Burke, Marlene Goldman, Annette Leibing and others.

»Die insgesamt 17 Artikel reflektieren eine beeindruckende Bandbreite von Perspektiven, Praktiken und Methoden, die gängige Narrative von Demenz als tragischem Verlust oder als ›lost self‹ hinterfragen. Diesen stereotypen Erzählungen stellt der Band vielschichtige und lebensbejahende Alternativen entgegen, die wir dringend brauchen.«

»Dieser reichhaltige Band macht von neuem aufmerksam und gibt sowohl der Forschung als auch politischem Engagement wertvolle Anregungen.«

»The volume provides pieces of exciting new research on the topic, and will probably spark much follow-up. It looks back into the history of media coverage concerning dementia, it gives an insight into what is happening at the moment, and it raises many reasoned questions for the future. Besides, it not only has a normative aspect to it, but strongly advocates for the rights of people with dementia. This makes it a very useful and productive groundwork for scholars and activists alike.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness 9 The locus of our dis-ease. Narratives of family life in the age of Alzheimer's 23 Deconstructing the American family. Figures of parents with dementia in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and A.M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven 43 Purging the world of the Whore and the horror. Gothic and apocalyptic portrayals of dementia in Canadian fiction 69 Narrating the limits of narration. Alzheimer's disease in contemporary literary texts 89 The 'terrifying question mark'. Dementia, fiction, and the possibilities of narrative 109 Dementia on the canvas. Art and the biopolitics of creativity 137 Cultural projection of dementia in the Reminiscence Museum. Dynamics of extrapolation 163 Opening Minds through Art. Students' constructions of people with dementia 185 'Zip!' Dementia materialized in clothing design 205 Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary Western fiction film. From epistemic injustice to social participation 229 Intercorporeal relations and ethical perception. Portrayals of Alzheimer's disease in Away from Her and En sång för Martin 253 Dementia in the making. Early detection and the body/brain in Alzheimer's disease 275 The meanings of early diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease in Dutch newspapers. A framing analysis 295 Respect for autonomy? The contribution of popular magazines to the public understanding of dementia care 315 Representations of Alzheimer's disease among non-specialists. A cross-cultural study between Paris and Boston 333 In the company of robots. Health care and the identity of people with dementia 359 The zero-degree of dementia. Thinking the gap between subject and substance 377 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 403 AUTHORS 405

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

9783839427101

383942710X

OCLC:

939417241