Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities 1st Edition

Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030465469,9783030465476,3030465462,3030465470

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030465470
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030465476
• Author: Janet Gibson

Focusing mainly on case studies from Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in ‘theatre of the real’ productions and care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the ‘right kind’ of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged. It argues that this type of story ― one of tragedy, loss of personhood, biomedical deficit, and socio-economic ‘crisis ― produces dementia and the people living with it, as much as biology does. It proposes two novel ideas. One is that the ‘gaze’ of theatre and performance offers a reframing of some of the behaviours and actions of people with dementia, through which deficit views can be changed to ones of possibility. The other is that, conversely, dementia offers productive perspectives on ’theatre of the real’.

Table contents:

1. My Mother’s Story, My Story

Part I. Dementia, Identity and Narrative

2. Recasting Senility: The Genesis of the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story

3. Narrative Regimes

Part II. Dementia in Performance

4. Staging the ‘Reality’ of Dementia

5. Staging Dementia Voices in Australia: Missing the Bus to David Jones, Theatre Kantanka, and Sundowner, KAGE

6. Mapping Applied Performance in Dementia Cultures

7. “I Don’t Want to Disappear”: Dementia and Public Autobiographical Performance

 

Part III. Dementia as Performance

8. Rehearsing a Theory of Dementia as Performance

9. Revisiting My Mother’s Story, My Story

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