Dementia, Narrative and Performance - Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities
von: Janet Gibson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
ISBN: 9783030465476
Sprache: Englisch
301 Seiten, Download: 3596 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
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| Acknowledgements | 6 | ||
| Contents | 9 | ||
| Abbreviations | 11 | ||
| List of Figures | 13 | ||
| Chapter 1: My Mother’s Story, My Story | 14 | ||
| Focal Points, Challenges, and Contributions | 17 | ||
| Theoretical Contexts, Disciplinary Locations, and Approach | 22 | ||
| Mapping the Arguments | 28 | ||
| Resisting the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story | 31 | ||
| References | 36 | ||
| Filmography | 44 | ||
| Part I: Dementia, Identity and Narrative | 45 | ||
| Chapter 2: Recasting Senility: The Genesis of the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story | 46 | ||
| What Is Dementia? Biomedical Approaches | 47 | ||
| Defining the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story | 49 | ||
| Recasting Senility as Alzheimer’s Disease: Historical and Geocultural Contexts | 53 | ||
| The ‘Crisis’ of Dementia: Sociopolitical and Economic Contexts | 55 | ||
| “A very neoliberal condition” | 58 | ||
| Metaphors and Stigma | 61 | ||
| Them and Us | 62 | ||
| References | 65 | ||
| Filmography | 68 | ||
| Plays | 68 | ||
| Chapter 3: Narrative Regimes | 69 | ||
| Narrative and the Construction of ‘Reality’ as ‘Normalcy’ | 70 | ||
| The Narrative Self: How Stories Constitute Selves | 71 | ||
| “Against Narrativity” | 76 | ||
| Reminiscence Regimes: Reminiscence and Its Therapies in Dementia Care | 78 | ||
| Digital Storytelling and Virtual Technologies | 87 | ||
| ‘Re-story-ing’: What Might Narrative Look Like Beyond Reminiscence? | 91 | ||
| References | 94 | ||
| Part II: Dementia in Performance | 100 | ||
| Chapter 4: Staging the ‘Reality’ of Dementia | 101 | ||
| Exploring Theatre of the Real | 103 | ||
| Staging Real Life: A Brief Genealogy | 107 | ||
| The Revival of the Real: Theatre of the Real and the “Lie of the Literal”13 | 113 | ||
| Defining Verbatim Theatre and Locating Its Cultural Work | 116 | ||
| Words and Dementia: Do They Matter? | 122 | ||
| What Dementia Offers Theatre of the Real | 125 | ||
| Constructing ‘Real’ Worlds | 126 | ||
| Representation and Reality | 129 | ||
| Normative Age-and-Dementia-Effects | 131 | ||
| References | 134 | ||
| Plays | 138 | ||
| Chapter 5: Staging Dementia Voices in Australia: Missing the Bus to David Jones, Theatre Kantanka, and Sundowner, KAGE | 140 | ||
| Postdramatic Theatre | 142 | ||
| Missing the Bus to David Jones2: The Production | 145 | ||
| The Coming of Age | 146 | ||
| “The Shangri-La Living Room is a Carnival of Entertainment and Activity” | 148 | ||
| Warehousing | 151 | ||
| Authenticity-Effects in Missing the Bus to David Jones | 154 | ||
| Resistant Strategies | 157 | ||
| Lust for Life | 161 | ||
| What Is Missing in Missing the Bus to David Jones? | 163 | ||
| A Tragedy Is About to Unfold | 166 | ||
| Sundowner as Dramatic Theatre | 168 | ||
| Memory as a Carrier of Identity | 171 | ||
| All You Need Is Love | 172 | ||
| Putting MBDJ and Sundowner in Conversation | 174 | ||
| References | 177 | ||
| Films | 181 | ||
| Plays | 181 | ||
| Television | 182 | ||
| Chapter 6: Mapping Applied Performance in Dementia Cultures | 183 | ||
| Narrative Interventions, Social Intentionality, Change, and Transformation | 185 | ||
| Change, Choice, and Participation: Dementia as Provocateur in Applied Performance | 186 | ||
| Narrative Recall and Healing | 191 | ||
| Re-story-ing (Old) People Living with Dementia: TimeSlips | 195 | ||
| TimeSlips: Resistance to the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story | 196 | ||
| TimeSlips: Problems of Control, Power, and Regimentation | 200 | ||
| Narra[tive]-Theatrical Spaces/Places | 201 | ||
| The Bucket List, Starett Lodge | 203 | ||
| De Hogeweyk | 206 | ||
| Rethinking the Story | 210 | ||
| References | 214 | ||
| Filmography | 219 | ||
| Chapter 7: “I Don’t Want to Disappear”: Dementia and Public Autobiographical Performance | 220 | ||
| The Provocations Dementia Offers to Autobiographical Performance Scholarship | 222 | ||
| Rights, Justice, and Agency | 224 | ||
| To Whom I May Concern® (TWIMC): Origins and Format | 227 | ||
| “I don’t want to disappear”: The Politics of the ‘I’ in TWIMC | 228 | ||
| A Boundary Phenomenon | 231 | ||
| Staging the ‘I’ | 234 | ||
| Discourse Disables the Possibility of a “Real-real” | 239 | ||
| Performers and Spectators | 241 | ||
| Promising Change | 243 | ||
| References | 245 | ||
| Part III: Dementia as Performance | 250 | ||
| Chapter 8: Rehearsing a Theory of Dementia as Performance | 251 | ||
| Situating Performance Paradigms | 252 | ||
| Rehearsing a Theory of Dementia as Performance | 255 | ||
| Dementia Activism as Cultural Performance | 264 | ||
| References | 269 | ||
| YouTube | 272 | ||
| Chapter 9: Revisiting My Mother’s Story, My Story | 273 | ||
| Future Imaginaries | 279 | ||
| References | 280 | ||
| Films | 281 | ||
| Television | 281 | ||
| Index | 282 |