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Entangled Stories: Reimagining Dementia, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Life Writing.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Entangled Stories: Reimagining Dementia, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Life Writing./
作者:	Lie, Crystal Yin.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	237 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09B.
標題:	Disability studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27542456
ISBN:	9781392549902

Entangled Stories: Reimagining Dementia, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Life Writing.
Lie, Crystal Yin.

Entangled Stories: Reimagining Dementia, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Life Writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 237 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation examines cultural and literary responses to dementia in narratives dealing with the personal and historical memory of trauma and violence. Rather than use dementia to signify a crisis of forgetting or the erasure of history, the texts in this dissertation deploy dementia as a formal and ethical resource; they offer revisionary narratives that recuperate negative discourses surrounding aging and cognitive impairment, as well as enable readers' reflections on issues across geopolitical borders, historical contexts, and different marginalized life experiences. Bringing a disability studies analytic to the examination of the politics and narrative aesthetics of dementia, Entangled Stories argues for a nuanced understanding of how dementia operates formally and thematically in contemporary writing as a site in which the intimate and global collide.Each chapter centers on authors' concomitant personal encounters with dementia and their explorations of the historical memory of major 20th- and 21st-century catastrophes. As such, I probe into the corresponding tropes and metaphors of dementia appearing strategically alongside the representation of those events. Chapter 1 interrogates the discourse of environmental disaster and memory loss in Ruth Ozeki's narration of the aftermath of Fukushima. Chapter 2 examines the contemporaneous rhetorics of the "War on Alzheimer's" and the War on Terror in Susan M. Schultz's experimental writing. Chapter 3 focuses on two authors' graphic renditions of dementia and traumatic history: Dana Walrath challenges dementia as a popular metaphor for political amnesia and denial in the context of the Armenian Genocide, while Stuart Campbell visualizes the interrelations of dementia and the social traumas of World War II. Chapter 4 turns to the popular fictions of Emma Healey and Jo Walton, which take up the trope of dementia's "alternative realities" to narrate histories of gendered postwar violence and aging differently. Together, these chapters reveal how dementia operates as a heuristic for understanding the past and connecting to others differently, thus reimagining life with dementia as one of agency and social value. For readers of these texts, the subject of dementia becomes an opportunity for thinking about transformative approaches to care, community, and conceptions of what it means to be human in time and history.Traversing the intergenerational memory of injustices surrounding environmental degradation, war, occupation, and genocide, the works featured in Entangled Stories generate discussions relevant to fields of literary studies bordering trauma theory, memory studies, and postcolonialism. This dissertation's focus on Alzheimer's and senile dementia also emphasizes age is an important intersectional identity category, bringing disability studies into conversation with work in feminist aging studies, dementia studies, and the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary nature of this project attests to how contemporary re-imaginings of dementia go beyond personal stories of loss and the pathological discourse of plaques and tangles-they are imbricated in broader representational concerns over how to remember and respond to extreme events and political conflict. Through writing about intimate encounters with dementia, these authors grapple with the increasing fear of Alzheimer's and dementia in the 21st century-a fear bolstered by the post-9/11 injunction to "never forget." Indeed, one of the tensions authors negotiate is the need to protect historical memory-as a form of enlightenment and intervention to preclude future tragedies-and the necessity of holding space for personal forgetting and caring for/about the experiences of aging, dementia, and embodied difference more broadly.

ISBN: 9781392549902Subjects--Topical Terms:

543687
Disability studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Alzheimer's disease

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