The Politics of Dementia : : Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives / / edited by Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Nina Schmidt and Sue Vice.
"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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| Superior document: | Media and cultural memory ; Volume 32 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Media and cultural memory ;
Volume 32. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of 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.