Living history, fading minds: dementia as the gateway to historical past in South Africa via Antjie Krog’s <i>Blood’s Inner Rhyme</i> (2025) and Julia Martin’s <i>The Blackridge House</i> (2019)
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- 10.1093/geront/gnag221
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- 2026-09-12
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@article{allodium:10.1093/geront/gnag221,
title = {Living history, fading minds: dementia as the gateway to historical past in South Africa via Antjie Krog’s
<i>Blood’s Inner Rhyme</i>
(2025) and Julia Martin’s
<i>The Blackridge House</i>
(2019)},
author = {Oscar Ortega Montero},
year = {2026},
journal = {The Gerontologist},
doi = {10.1093/geront/gnag221},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag221}
}RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Living history, fading minds: dementia as the gateway to historical past in South Africa via Antjie Krog’s
<i>Blood’s Inner Rhyme</i>
(2025) and Julia Martin’s
<i>The Blackridge House</i>
(2019)
AU - Oscar Ortega Montero
PY - 2026
JO - The Gerontologist
DO - 10.1093/geront/gnag221
UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag221
ER - APA
Montero, O. O. (2026). Living history, fading minds: dementia as the gateway to historical past in South Africa via Antjie Krog’s <i>Blood’s Inner Rhyme</i> (2025) and Julia Martin’s <i>The Blackridge House</i> (2019). The Gerontologist. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag221
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