@misc { , title = {She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory}, abstract = {She’s Been Away is a television drama written by Stephen Poliakoff and broadcast in the UK on the BBC in 1989. This paper discusses the ways in which the play unusually presents a feminist critique of contemporary patriarchal structures through the mobilisation of an elderly woman’s memories that, once excavated, liberate her and act as a force for empowerment in a younger woman. I draw on the ideas of prothestic memory posited by Alison Landsberg (2004) to argue that memory provides a mechanism through which the confluence of madness, old age and memory disrupts expectations and punctures the consciousness. The combination of Lillian’s age and her intergenerational relation with her niece-in-law subvert the well worn tropes and reconfigures ageing as wisdom able to produce a new sense of empowerment. As such, She’s Been Away is both a celebration of the unruly older woman and a meditation on the power of memory to produce counter discourse.}, isbn = {9783837625820}, journal = {Aging Studies Series entitled “Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity.”}, note = {Comments and Suggestions : I do not know if this is any good to you because the uploaded copy is not the final version but one sent to me from the copy editors. I cannot place my subsequent version.}, pages = {187-202}, publicationstatus = {Published}, url = {https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/820146}, volume = {5}, keyword = {ageing, madness, television drama, memory, unruly, patriarchy}, year = {2014}, author = {Wilson, Sherryl} editor = {Kriebernegg, Ulla and Maierhofer, Roberta and Ratzenböck, Barbara} }