The Politics of Dementia

This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse experiences of violence and trauma are represented as relating to dementia and...

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Other Authors: Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei (Editor), Schmidt, Nina (Editor), Vice, Sue (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
Series:Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung 32
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Summary:This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse experiences of violence and trauma are represented as relating to dementia and in what ways this affects our understanding of the fraught and entangled histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (228 p.)
ISBN:9783110713626
9783110713572
9783110713701
Access:Open Access