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    "pk": 43208,
    "title": "Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The article discusses David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant (2007) in the context of critical disability studies and hemispheric American studies. In particular, it explores dementia as a cultural narrative that links the protagonist’s personal case of dementia to her traumatic experiences of US violence, abuse, and exploitation in the Caribbean, her forced migration in Trinidad, and unfulfilled hopes of integration into Canadian society after having immigrated in the context of Canadian labor and immigration programs in the early 1960s. The article explores the various levels of meaning dementia unfolds in Chariandy’s novel as critical reflection on memory work, racism, and colonial as well as neocolonial exploitation. It also relates the narrative structure of the novel to recent geriatric life-telling therapy used to restore individual dignity and identity to people suffering from dementia.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "InterAmerican studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hemispheric Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "entanglement"
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        {
            "word": "Dementia"
        },
        {
            "word": "Trauma"
        },
        {
            "word": "migration"
        },
        {
            "word": "memory work"
        },
        {
            "word": "David Chariandy"
        },
        {
            "word": "Soucouyant 2007"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8787c124",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Wilfried",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Raussert",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Bielefeld",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2023-11-05T02:46:35Z",
    "date_accepted": "2023-11-05T02:46:35Z",
    "date_published": "2023-11-05T02:49:24Z",
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}