Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives Eds. Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow and Matthew Sweney CONTENTS 00 Acknowledgments 01 Heike Hartung and Rüdiger Kunow Introduction: Alzheimer's Disease as a Gendered Affliction - Masculinities between Dementia Ventriloquism and Symptomatic Readings Section I: Conceptualizing Masculinities, Dementia Care and Embodiment 02 Martina Zimmermann Chapter 1: From a "Care-Free" Distance? Adult Sons about Their Parents with Dementia: A Cross-Cultural Enquiry 03 Annette Leibing and Cintia Engel Chapter 2: Masculinities in Brazil: Identity Tinkering and Dementia Care 04 Melinda Niehus-Kettler Chapter 3: Becoming One of the Others: Embodying and Eliminating Fabricated Natures Section II: The Poetics of Dementia and Masculinity: Between Eulogy and Negation 05 Katharina Fürholzer Chapter 4: Living Oblivion: Poetic Narratives of Dementia and Fatherhood in Pia Tafdrup's Tarkovsky's Horses 06 Joao Paulo Guimaraes and Daae Jung Chapter 5: Anne Carson, Dementia and the Negative Self Section III: Masculinity and Dementia in Film: Between Laughter and Violence 07 Stefan Horlacher and Franziska Röber Chapter 6: Of Bees, Boobies and Frank Sinatra: Masculinity and Alzheimer's in Contemporary European Film Comedies 08 Raquel Medina Chapter 7: Writing the Past to Fight Alzheimer's Disease: Masculinity, Temporality, and Agency in Memoir of a Murderer Section IV: Perspectives on Masculinity and Dementia in Memoirs and Fictional Narratives 09 Michaela Schrage-Früh Chapter 8: Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney's Minor Monuments 10 Teresa Requena-Pelegri Chapter 9: Narratives of Parkinson's Dementia and Masculinities: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections 11 Heike Hartung Chapter 10: Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The 'Son's Book of the Father' 12 Contributors 13 Index.