Journeying into Uncertainty: Representations of Memory Loss in Kindertransport Fiction and Drama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Refracting History, Trauma and the Generations through the Prism of Dementia 1
4. Dementia and Meaning Making
5. In the Shadow of No Memories? The Role of Dementia in Contemporary Aftermath Writing 17
6. Homo Sacer / Homo Demens. The Epistemology of Dementia in Contemporary Literature and Theory 39
7. Dementia and the Politics of Memory in Fiction. From the Condition as Narrative Experiment to the Patient as Plot Device 55
8. Dementia’s Paradoxical Relation to Buried Truths
9. Over/writing the Father? Dementia and the National Socialist Past in Tilman Jens’s Demenz 73
10. “That I Could Live as Not Myself”: Holocaust Survival, Trans Identity and Dementia in Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom 93
11. Dementia as Catalyst and Plot Device
12. Journeying into Uncertainty: Representations of Memory Loss in Kindertransport Fiction and Drama 117
13. Screen Memories in Literary and Graphic Dementia Narratives. Irene Dische’s “The Doctor Needs a Home” and Stuart Campbell’s These Memories Won’t Last 135
14. Dementia and Genocide: An Artist’s Approach
15. Transmuting Transgenerational Trauma: Dementia, Storytelling and Healing 153
16. Dementia as Ethical Challenge
17. Strange Bodies. Dementia and Legacies of Colonialism in Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest 175
18. The Temporality and Politics of Language Lost and Found. Cinema, Dementia and the Entangled Histories of Singapore 189
19. Forgetting and Remembering in Post-dictatorial Argentina. Tiempo suspendido and the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking Featuring People Living with Dementia 203
20. Contributors 219
21. Index 221