Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

• Other Authors: Hartung, Heike (Editor), Synnes, Oddgeir (Editor), Falcus, Sarah (Editor), Kunow, Rüdiger (Editor), Sweney, Matthew (Editor), Lehmann, Olga (Editor), Oró-Piqueras, Maricel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2022
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
• Subjects: Autobiography: literary; Biography: literary; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Films, cinema; Literary Studies; Contemporary Literature (Lit Studies); European Literature (Lit Studies); African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures (Lit Studies); British and Irish Literature (Lit Studies); Latin American Literature, Media and Culture (Latin Amer. Studies); Iberian and Latin American Literature (Lit Studies); North American Literature (Lit Studies); Gender and Film (Film & Media); Literature and Science (Lit Studies); Sociology of Ageing and Death (Sociology); Monograph
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria. Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease. They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development.