The Politics of Dementia
Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives
Seiten
2021
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-071357-2 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-071357-2 (ISBN)
Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die ‘neuen’ digitalen Medien, Intermedialität, Transmedialität und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der mediatisierten Erinnerung gehören zu den Forschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine internationale Plattform für die interdisziplinäre Medien- und Gedächtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im peer review Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.
Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres – novels, auto/biographical writings, documentary as well as fictional films and graphic memoirs – represent dementia for the sake of critical explorations of memory, trauma and contested truths. In ten analytical chapters and one piece of graphic art, the contributors examine the ways in which what might seem to be the individual, ahistorical diseases of dementia are used in contemporary cultural texts to represent and respond to violent historical and political events – ranging from the Holocaust to postcolonial conditions – all of which can prove difficult to remember. Combining approaches from literary studies with insights from memory studies, trauma studies, anthropology, the critical medical humanities and media, film and comics studies, this volume explores the politics of dementia and incites new debates on cultures of remembrance, while remaining attentive to the lived reality of dementia.
Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres – novels, auto/biographical writings, documentary as well as fictional films and graphic memoirs – represent dementia for the sake of critical explorations of memory, trauma and contested truths. In ten analytical chapters and one piece of graphic art, the contributors examine the ways in which what might seem to be the individual, ahistorical diseases of dementia are used in contemporary cultural texts to represent and respond to violent historical and political events – ranging from the Holocaust to postcolonial conditions – all of which can prove difficult to remember. Combining approaches from literary studies with insights from memory studies, trauma studies, anthropology, the critical medical humanities and media, film and comics studies, this volume explores the politics of dementia and incites new debates on cultures of remembrance, while remaining attentive to the lived reality of dementia.
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Nina Schmidt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;Sue Vice, The University of Sheffield, UK.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Media and Cultural Memory ; 32 |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 col. ill. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 471 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | cultural dimensions of forgetting • cultural dimensions of forgetting, disavowal and repression • dementia and history • dementia and the holocaust • disavowal and repression • Political dimension of dementia |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-071357-8 / 3110713578 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-071357-2 / 9783110713572 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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