Fictions of Dementia

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In our reflections about how we want to live with dementia, narrative fiction provides helpful insights. Susanne Katharina Christ explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone novels. Different narrative modes offer a variety of epistemological prerequisites and possibilities for narrating dementia from giving an ever so close imaginative glimpse at subjective experience to looking at life with dementia in a more distanced way. Fiction allows readers to learn about the challenges of dementia, grants them perspective-taking, it trains cognitive flexibility, and explores the meaning and limits of memory, knowledge, narrative and imagination. Thus, it offers trajectories of cultural coping with dementia.

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Susanne Katharina Christ
Susanne Katharina Christ works as a scholar in the field of literary and cultural studies. She received her binational doctorate from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany and Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. She was a member of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and the European PhD Net. Her research focuses on narrative theory, representations of consciousness, on ageing and dementia, and on the cultural work of fiction.

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Fiction Narrative Dementia Culture Consciousness Literature Aging Studies American Studies British Studies Cultural Studies Literary Studies

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