Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : Memory Lost Paperback / softback
by Cristina Garrigos
Part of the Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture series
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This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role.
Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of the identity of that person and their sense of belonging to a group.
Starting out from three different types of memory (individual, social and cultural), the study focuses on the narrative strategies that authors use to configure how the disease is perceived and represented.
This study is significant not only because of what the texts reveal about those with Alzheimer’s, but also for what they say about us - about the authors and readers who are producing and consuming these texts, about how we see this disease, and what our attitudes to it say about contemporary U.S. society.
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- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781032040097