Remind Me Who I Am, Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remind Me Who I Am, Again write by Linda Grant. This book was released on 2011-01-06. Remind Me Who I Am, Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland to New York and London. Writing with humour and great tenderness, Grant explores profound questions about memory, autonomy and identity, and asks if we can ever really know our parents.
Remind Me who I Am, Again
Remind Me who I Am, Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remind Me who I Am, Again write by Linda Grant. This book was released on 2011. Remind Me who I Am, Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1993 Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia. With Rose's memory deteriorating, a whole world was in the process of being lost. This book looks at the issues of identity, memory & autonomy that dementia raises.
The Globalization of Space
The Globalization of Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Globalization of Space write by John Miller. This book was released on 2015-10-06. The Globalization of Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of Michel Foucault has been influential in the analysis of space in a variety of disciplines, most notably in geography and politics. This collection of essays is the first to focus on what Foucault termed ‘heterotopias’, spaces that exhibit multiple layers of meaning and reveal tensions within society.
Remind Me Again What Happened
Remind Me Again What Happened - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remind Me Again What Happened write by Joanna Luloff. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Remind Me Again What Happened available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “There is a smudge where my memory is supposed to be.” Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie, and her best friend, Rachel, and by combing through boxes of letters and casual jottings. But she senses a mystery at the center of all these fragments of her past, a feeling that something is not complete. Is Charlie still her husband? Is Rachel still her friend? Told from alternating points of view that pull the reader into the minds of the three characters, the story unfolds as the smudge that covers Claire’s memory is gradually, steadily wiped away, until finally she can understand the why and the how of her life. And then maybe she and Charlie and Rachel can move forward, but with their lives forever changed. In Remind Me Again What Happened, debut novelist Joanna Luloff has written a moving and beautifully nuanced story of transience, the ebb and flow of time, and how relationships shift and are reconfigured by each day, hour, and minute.
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Narratives of Dementia write by Sarah Falcus. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Contemporary Narratives of Dementia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help us to interrogate the cultural discourse of dementia. Contemporary Narratives of Dementia is a seminal book that offers a sustained examination of a wide range of literary narratives, from auto/biographies and detective fiction, to children’s books and comic books. With its wide-reaching theoretical and critical scope, its comparative dimension, and its inclusion of multiple genres, this book is important for scholars engaging with studies of dementia and ageing in diverse disciplines. Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has research interests in contemporary women’s writing, feminism and literary gerontology. She is the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative (DCN) network. Katsura Sako is an Associate Professor of English, at Keio University, Japan. Her main field of research is in post-war/contemporary British literature, and she has particular interests in gender, ageing and illness. She is a member of the steering committee of the DCN network.
