The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 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 depe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-83046-9
- EAN: 9783319830469
- Produktnummer: 28393480
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D0.9 cm 236 g
- Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 236
Über den Autor
Martina Zimmermann has fifteen years of research and teaching experience in Pharmacology, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her scholarly interests have increasingly shifted towards the Health Humanities: with an MA in Literature and Medicine, she currently researches for a book on dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the 20th Century at King's College London, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her personal website is www.martinazimmermann.org
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