A Little Unsteadily into Light (eBook)
253 Seiten
New Island (Verlag)
978-1-84840-862-3 (ISBN)
Suad Aldarra
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Jan Carson
Elaine Feeney
Oona Frawley
Sinéad Gleeson
Anna Jean Hughes
Caleb Klaces
Naomi Krüger
Henrietta McKervey
Paul McVeigh
Mary Morrissy
Nuala O'Connor
Chris Wright
To live with dementia is to develop extraordinary and various new ways of being – linguistically, cognitively and practically. The storyteller operates similarly, using words and ideas creatively to reveal a slightly different perspective of the world.
In this anthology of fourteen new short stories, commissioned by Jan Carson and Jane Lugea, some of the best contemporary writers from Ireland and the UK powerfully and poignantly explore the depths and breadth of the real dementia experience, traversing age, ethnicity, class and gender, sex and consent. Each writer's story is drawn from their own personal experience of dementia and told with outrageous and dark humour, empathy and startling insight. Here are heroes and villains, tricksters and saints, mothers, fathers, lovers, friends, characters whose past has overshadowed their present and characters who are making a huge impact on the world they currently find themselves in. They might have dementia, but dementia is only a small part of who they are. They will challenge, frustrate, inspire and humble you.
Above all, these brilliant pieces of short fiction disrupt the perceived notions of what dementia is and, in their diversity, honesty and authenticity begin to normalise an illness that affects so many and break down the stigma endured by those living with it every day.
Find out more about the AHRC-funded research project based at Queen's University Belfast, from which this anthology has emerged: www.blogs.qub.ac.uk/dementiafiction/
JAN CARSON is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She is the author of three novels including The Raptures (2022), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. She published a short-story collection, Children's Children, in 2016, followed by two micro fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. www.jancarson.co.uk T: @JANCARSON7280 I: @JANCARSONSTORIES
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.9.2022 |
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Co-Autor | Mary Morrissy, Nuala O'Connor, Sinéad Gleeson, Elaine Feeney, Oona Frawley, Paul McVeigh, Henrietta McKervey, Chris Wright, Naomi Krüger, Caleb Klaces, Anna Jean Hughes, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Suad Aldarra |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie | |
Schlagworte | Ageing • alzheimers • Anna Jean Hughes • Anthologies • Anthology • Arts Council of Ireland • Award-winning writing • Belfast • British writing • Caleb Azumeh Nelson • Caleb Klaces • Catholic • Chris Wright • Cost of Care Home • Creative Writing • Death • dementia • Dementia Research • Design • Dialogue • Dublin • early-onset alzheimer's • Editor • elaine feeney • F • Faith • Family • father son • Fiction • financial impact • Geriatric care • Henrietta McKervey • Home help • Homosexuality • Independent Publishing • Ireland • Irish Book Awards • Irish Editor • Irish fiction • Irish publisher • Irish Writers • irish writing • Jan Carson • jane lugea • LGBTQ+ • Life • Love • Luke Bird • mary morrissey • Memory • Memory loss • mother daughter • Naomi Kruger • New Island Books • Northern Ireland • Northern Irish Editor • Northern Irish Female Writers • Northern Irish Writer • Northern Irish Writers • Nuala O'Connor • Nursing Homes • Old age • Oona Frawley • Parental relationships • Paul McVeigh • Protestant • Publishing Ireland • QUB • Queen's • Queen's University Belfast • Religion • Residential Care • Sex • short fiction • Short Stories • Short Story • short story anthology • Siblings • sinead gleeson • Stories • Suad Aldarra • The Fire Starters • The Raptures • The Troubles • widow • widower |
ISBN-10 | 1-84840-862-5 / 1848408625 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84840-862-3 / 9781848408623 |
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