Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sako, Katsura (Editor), Falcus, Sarah, editor (editor), Sako, Katsura, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis 2022
2021.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.