Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narratives

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nContributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Alzheimer’s disease as a gendered affliction – masculinities between dementia ventriloquism and symptomatic readings\n	1. Alzheimer’s disease and critical sociocultural constructions of old age\n	2. Dementia ventriloquism: Speaker positions in AD\n	3. AD, gendered care and ageing masculinities\n	4. Conclusion as departure: AD and cultural critique\nPart One Conceptualizing masculinities, dementia care and embodiment\n	1 From a ‘care-free’ distance? Adult sons about their parents with dementia: A cross-cultural enquiry\n		1. Introduction\n		2. Michele Farina: Borrowing the pain of others\n		3. Jonathan Taylor: Rationalizing aggression\n		4. Nick Taylor: Conserving family dynamics\n		5. Conclusion: Masculinity and control\n	2 Masculinities in Brazil: Identity tinkering and dementia care\n		1. Vignette one: Caring for his wife\n		2. Vignette two: A follow-up consultation at the geriatric clinic\n		3. Care and recognition\n	3 Becoming one of the Others: Embodying and eliminating fabricated natures\n		1. Fabricating and eliminating natures\n		2. To cut a long (hi)story short: Embodied audio-visual hierarchies\n		3. Embodying our power structures\n		4. Elimination from the inside?!\nPart Two The poetics of dementia and masculinity: Between eulogy and negation\n	4 Living oblivion: Poetic narratives ofdementia and fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup’s Tarkovsky’s Horses\n		1. Poetic narratives of dementia and loss\n		2. Language, literature, and dementia\n		3. Intertexts as side narratives\n		4. Conclusion\n	5 Anne Carson, dementia and the negative self\nPart Three Masculinity and dementia in film: Between laughter and violence\n	6 Of bees, boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer’s in contemporary European film comedies\n		1. Introducing the corpus of analysis\n		2. Hegemonic masculinity (revoked), the trickster, and the ability to voice feelings\n		3. Instead of alternative masculinities: Functionalizing stereotypes\n		4. Conclusion\n	7 Writing the past to fight Alzheimer’s disease: Masculinity, temporality, and agency in Memoir of a Murderer\n		1. Violent masculinity and the concept of the ‘eternal recurrence of the same’\n		2. Memorizing and forgetting the past\n		3. Dementia: Time and temporality\n		4. Conclusion\nPart Four Perspectives on masculinity and dementia in memoirs and fictional narratives\n8 Stories of exile and home: Dementia and masculinity in Arno Geiger’s Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney’s Minor Monuments\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Arno Geiger’s Der alte König in seinem Exil\n	3. Ian Maleney’s Minor Monuments\n	4. Conclusion\n9 Narratives of Parkinson’s dementia and masculinities: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections\n	1. Embodying privilege: The intersectional approach to masculinity, old age and dementia\n	2. Intersectional exploration of gender privilege, age and disease: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and ‘My Father’s Brain’\n	3. Conclusion\n10 Illness memoirs, ageing masculinities and care: The ‘son’s book of the father’\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Tilman Jens: Demenz (2009) – Between mourning the loss of the father and patricide\n	3. Intertextual responses to Philip Roth’s Patrimony (1991): Relational (auto-) biography as the ‘Son’s Book of the Father’\n	4. Philip Roth’s Patrimony : Performing masculinity as ‘female’ care for the father\n	5. Conclusion\nIndex