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  1. Alzheimer s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
    Memory Lost
    Author: Garrigós, Cristina
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss. The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer s affects our idea of... more

     

    This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss. The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer s affects our idea of identity in an individual, social and cultural sense

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032040097
    Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    Subjects: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia; LIT024000; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; Psychologie des Alters und Alterns; Psychology of ageing; Psychotherapie; Psychotherapy
    Scope: 164 Seiten
    Notes:

    Introduction PART I Individual Memory 1 The Three Lessons on Alzheimer s in Lisa Genova s Still Alice 2 Memory Blanks, Conïnement, and Mystery in Alice LaPlante s Turn of Mind. PART II Social Memory 3 Matthew Thomas s We Are Not Ourselves: Alzheimer s and the Failure of the American Dream 4 Interdependence and Memorial Identity in Marita Golden s The Wide Circumference of Love 5 Memory Loss and Infantilization in Rachel Khong s Goodbye, Vitamin PART III Cultural Memory 6 The Amnesiac Rapture of Alzheimer s: Stefan Merrill Block s The Story of Forgetting 7 Satire in Chuck Palahniuk s Representation of Alzheimer s Disease in Choke 8 Ruth Ozeki s Alzheimer s as Cultural Forgetting in All over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being Bibliography Index