Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

By: Cristina Garrigós

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 164 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000410624
Related ISBNs:: 9781032035581, 9781032040097, 9781003190196
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 07/29/21
Copyrighted By:: Taylor & Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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