Little Unsteadily into Light (eBook)

Jan Carson, Jane Lugea (Autoren)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
New Island Books (Verlag)
978-1-84840-862-3 (ISBN)

Infos

New fiction by:  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

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New fiction by: Suad AldarraCaleb Azumah NelsonJan CarsonElaine FeeneyOona FrawleySinead GleesonAnna Jean HughesCaleb KlacesNaomi KrugerHenrietta McKerveyPaul McVeighMary MorrissyNuala O'ConnorChris 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/

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2022
• Co-Autor: Henrietta McKervey, Paul McVeigh, Mary Morrissy, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nuala O'Connor, Chris Wright, Suad Aldarra, Elaine Feeney, Oona Frawley, Sinead Gleeson, Anna Jean Hughes, Caleb Klaces, Naomi Kruger
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: 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