Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs

Poetics of the Forgetting Self

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Pramod K Nayar

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This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a 'biosociality,' and the ethics of care. It examines the 'disease writing' genre about a condition that ravages the ability to use language. It serves as a "literary" examination of the work done in this area through a critical reading of the memoirs of those with AD and caregivers and a healthy dose of literary theory. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in literary and critical theory and researchers in the field of ageing/dementia studies.

Author Biography:

Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Department of English, the University of Hyderabad, India. Among his newest books are Human Rights Graphic Novels (2021), Essays in Celebrity Culture (2021), Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture (2019), Brand Postcolonial; ‘Third World’ Texts and the Global (2018), Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic (2017), Human Rights and Literature (2016), among others. His work has most recently appeared in Image and Text, Biography, Celebrity Studies, Narrative, and other journals.

Release date NZ

December 7th, 2021

Author

Pramod K Nayar

Pages

153

Edition

1st ed. 2021

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 153 p. 1 illus.

ISBN-13

9789811661112

Product ID

35604898

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