Description: Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing, Hardcover by Zimmermann, Martina, ISBN 3319443879, ISBN-13 9783319443874, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer’s narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients’ articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s patients.
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Book Title: Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing : S (h) Ifting Dementia
Number of Pages: VIII, 167 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: European / General, Modern / 20th Century, Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Health & Fitness
Item Weight: 117.9 Oz
Author: Martina Zimmermann
Item Length: 8.3 in
Book Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
