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Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Memory Lost de Cristina Garrigós

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

Autor Cristina Garrigós
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2023
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032040097
ISBN-10: 1032040092
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction
 
PART I
Individual Memory
1 The Three Lessons on Alzheimer’s in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
2 Memory Blanks, Confinement, 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

Notă biografică

Cristina Garrigós is Professor of American Literature at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), where she has been teaching since 2015. She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Seville and an M.A in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at different universities in Spain and the U.S. Her research interests include U.S. contemporary literature, Postmodernism, film, music, and gender. She is the author of a monograph on John Barth, as well as the editor of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote in Spanish; she co-authored the book of interviews God Save the Queens: Pioneras del Punk (66 rpm 2019), and has co-edited several conference proceedings and collective volumes such as 11 septiembre y la tradición disidente en los Estados Unidos (UP. Valencia), or the dossier on Punk Connections: A Transcultural Perspective in the journal Lectora (U. of Barcelona). She has published articles and book chapters on authors such as John Barth, Kathy Acker, Gloria Anzaldúa, Giannina Braschi, Rabih Alameddine, Helena María Viramontes, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, or Ruth Ozeki, among others.

Descriere

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.