Who speaks up for Inés Fonseca? Representing violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care in fictional narrative about Alzheimer's disease: Ahora tocad música de baile (2004) by Andrés Barba

• Published in: Ageing and society Vol. 37; no. 7; pp. 1394 - 1415
• Main Author: MEDINA, RAQUEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2017
• Subjects: Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Assisted suicide; Cultural texts; Culture; Dementia; Discourses; Documentary films; Ethics; Euthanasia; Graphic novels; Homicide; Medical ethics; Memory; Metaphor; Moral judgment; Murders & murder attempts; Narratives; Reading; Society; Stereotypes; Suicides & suicide attempts; Tragedies; Violence; Vulnerability; Writing; Spain; murder; stigma; stereotypes; vulnerable subjects; readership; fiction; euthanasia; Alzheimer's disease; representation of violence; ethics of care

This paper studies the 2004 Spanish fictional novel by Andrés Barba, Ahora tocad música de baile, one of the first cultural texts dealing entirely with Alzheimer's disease to appear in Spain. It argues that the significance of Barba's fictional novel rests on two important issues: the ethi...