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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 University of Graz and the Department of Health, Care, and Science of the Office of the Regional 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."--
Alzheimer's disease. --- Aging. --- Masculinity. --- Dementia --- Diseases in literature. --- Old age in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Patients.
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Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form. »Each of the articles that compose the collection invites the readers into a nuanced analysis of protagonists who live through intense pain and illness, highlighting the potentialities of language as well as the contradictions that arise inside the same protagonists between their failing bodies, their selves and societys expectations.« Maricel Or-Piqueras, Ageculturehumanities, 5(2020)
Aging. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Physiological effect --- Age Studies; Aging Studies; Gender Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies; Narrative Theory; Body and Embodiment; Ageism; Health; Decay; Culture; Literature; Body; General Literature Studies --- Ageism. --- Aging Studies. --- Body and Embodiment. --- Body. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Decay. --- Gender Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- Health. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Narrative Theory.
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Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts of relationality, kinship and care. The essays analyze transcultural experiences of ageing men from Europe, relationships including the Indian diaspora in the US, Chinese father images in the US-American context and Black British queer kinship, drawing its examples also from Brazilian society and African European contexts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology. --- Ageing. --- Aging Studies. --- Care. --- Culture. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Interculturalism. --- Masculinities. --- Sociology.
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