LEADER 03495nam 2200433 450 001 9910482977403321 005 20230823003632.0 010 $a3-030-46547-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-46547-6 035 $a(CKB)5590000000002251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6360943 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-46547-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000002251 100 $a20210225d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDementia, narrative and performance $estaging reality, reimagining identities /$fJanet Gibson 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 298 p. 5 illus.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-46546-2 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aFocusing 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?. Scanning contemporary critical studies about and practices of ?theatre of the real? performances and applied theatre interventions, the book probes what it means when certain ?theatre of the real? practices (specifically verbatim and autobiographical) interact with storytellers considered, culturally, to be ?unreliable narrators?. It also explores whether autobiographical theatre is useful in reinforcing a sense of ?self? for those deemed no longer to have one. With a focus on therelationship between stories and selves, the book investigates how selves might be rethought so that they are not contingent on the production of lucid self-narratives, consistent language, and truthful memories. 606 $aTheater$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aTheater$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a792.019 700 $aGibson$b Janet$0909062 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482977403321 996 $aDementia, narrative and performance$92033417 997 $aUNINA