Literatures of dementia, Alzheimer’s and lost memories.
Literature and Memory: Public lecture series on life-writing, autobiography, personal narrative (UCT Summer & Winter School: January & August 2020).
Artwork above by Robin Rhode.
Block, Stefan Merrill. ‘A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s’. The New Yorker. 20 August 2014.
Dowling, Finuala. Notes from the Dementia Ward. 2008.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. ‘Memory’ from Natural History of the Intellect. 1871.
Franzen, Jonathan. ‘My Father’s Brain.’ In How to Be Alone: Essays. 2001.
MacFarquhar, Larissa. ‘The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care’. The New Yorker. 1 October, 2018. Video.
Maginess, Tess ed. Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 2018.
Shenk. David. The Forgetting: Portrait of an Epidemic. 2001. (Originally published as Understanding Alzheimer’s: the Biography of a Disease).