1st Edition
Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
Introduction
Chapter 1
Ageing and Care in the Visual Field: The Photography of Martine Franck
Shirley Jordan
Chapter 2
Improvisation and Vulnerability: Circuits of Care in Performances of Age and Ageing
Bridie Moore
Chapter 3
The Bucket List and More: Exploring Care Practices in an Australian Residential Aged Care Home through a "Narra-theatrical" Lens
Janet Gibson
Chapter 4
"Come Healing of the Spirit, Come Healing of the Mind": The Evolution of Care in Sylvain Biegeleisen’s The Last Postcard and Twilight of a Life
Amir Cohen-Shalev
Chapter 5
Dementia in Familial Documentary Film: The Ethics of Representation and the Ethics of Care
Raquel Medina
Chapter 6
Re-orientating Hesitantly: Approaching the Entangled Temporalities of Cinema, Dementia, and Hong Kong from a Decolonial Viewpoint
MaoHui Deng
Chapter 7
Ghost on the Canvas: Glen Campbell’s Musical Narratives of Ageing, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Care
Simon Buck
Chapter 8
A Glut of Slippers: The Chronotope of Older Age in the Contemporary North American Short Story
Elizabeth Barry
Chapter 9
Old Friends: Reimagining Care Relations through Helen Garner’s The Spare Room
Sally Chivers
Chapter 10
Care, Generations and Reciprocity in Children’s Picturebooks in Japan
Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus
Biography
Katsura Sako is Professor of English at Keio University, Japan. She has research interests in literary and cultural studies of the life course, ageing and gender. She has published in journals such as Contemporary Women’s Writing, Feminist Review and Women: A Cultural Review. She is the co-author, with Sarah Falcus, of Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics (Routledge, 2019). She has held multiple research grants, including Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, which funded the conference Ageing, Illness, Care in Literary and Cultural Narratives that was held at the University of Huddersfield in 2019 and provided the basis for this volume.
Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield. She has research interests in literary and cultural gerontology, science and speculative fiction, and children’s literature. She is the co-author, with Katsura Sako, of Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics (Routledge, 2019). She is the co-editor, with Alison Waller, of a special issue of International Research in Children’s Literature (2021) that brings together children’s literature studies and ageing studies.
