The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Author: Zimmermann, Martina.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• Alzheimer's Disease and Narrative Theory: Is 'Narrating Dementia' an Oxymoron?
• Conscientious Criticism: Mapping My Reading of Dementia Life-Writing
• Sifting Dementia Narratives
• 2 Of Wives and Daughters: Stereotypes of the Caring Female?
• The Lost Identity: Alzheimer's Disease, Adult Children and the Past
• Times Are Changing: 'Mothers' and Lovers
• Perceived Caregiver Burden and Patient Identity Condition Each Other
• 3 From a 'Care-Free' Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts
• Body and Mind: The Patient as Object
• Alzheimer's and Aging: The Patient as Subject
• Historical, Cultural and Personal Context Influence Attitudes to Dementia
• 4 About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative
• Tradition Sells: The Journey into Darkness
• Form and Contents: Narrating Alzheimer's versus 'Account-Ability'
• Collaborative Writing Meets Societal Norms and Political Intentions
• 5 On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer's Disease
• Times Are Changing II: Patient Activism
• Identity within Dementia: The Patient as Postmodern Prophet?
• The Patient's World Advises Caregiver and Society
• 6 Conclusion
• Alzheimer's Disease Narratives Today: New Media, Germane Stories
• Stories of Dementia: Pedagogical, Political, Representative
• Bibliography of Dementia Narratives
• Caregiver Narratives
• Patient Narratives
• Works Cited
• Index.