Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care / / edited by Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus.

• Superior document: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• TeilnehmendeR: Falcus, Sarah,; Sako, Katsura,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Routledge,, 2021.; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022; 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages).

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. They consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and liter...

Table of Contents

• Ageing and care in the visual field : the photography of Martine Franck / Shirley Jordan
• Improvisation and vulnerability : circuits of care in performances of age and ageing / Bridie Moore
• The bucket list and more : exploring care practices in an Australian residential aged care home through a "narra-theatrical" lens / Janet Gibson
• "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
• Dementia in familial documentary film : the ethics of representation and the ethics of care / Raquel Medina
• Re-orientating hesitantly : approaching the entangled temporalities of cinema, dementia, and Hong Kong from a decolonial viewpoint / MaoHui Deng
• Ghost on the canvas : Glen Campbell's musical narratives of ageing, Alzheimer's disease, and care / Simon Buck
• A glut of slippers : the chronotope of older age in the contemporary North American short story / Elizabeth Barry
• Old friends : reimagining care relations through Helen Garner's The spare room / Sally Chivers
• Care, generations and reciprocity in children's picturebooks in Japan / Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus.