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Losing It - Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Losing It - Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations
of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated
strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the
productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated
determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been
(and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been
(and is) known to educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom
generation finds itself solidly in the category of “Senior,”
interest in plays that address personal and social issues around
cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and expensive
experience, no two iterations of which are identical, have,
understandably, burgeoned. This study shines a spotlight on eleven
dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over
the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities
scholar Anne Whitehead, to “open up, and to hold open,
central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation,
responsibility, complicity and care.”
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Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Dorothy Chansky
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
327 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-120901-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
3-03-120901-X |
Barcode: |
9783031209017 |
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