Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

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.

• IntroductionChapter 1 Ageing and Care in the Visual Field: The Photography of Martine FranckShirley JordanChapter 2 Improvisation and Vulnerability: Circuits of Care in Performances of Age and AgeingBridie MooreChapter 3The Bucket List and More: Exploring Care Practices in an Australian Residential Aged Care Home through a "Narra-theatrical" LensJanet GibsonChapter 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 LifeAmir Cohen-ShalevChapter 5 Dementia in Familial Documentary Film: The Ethics of Representation and the Ethics of CareRaquel MedinaChapter 6Re-orientating Hesitantly: Approaching the Entangled Temporalities of Cinema, Dementia, and Hong Kong from a Decolonial ViewpointMaoHui DengChapter 7 Ghost on the Canvas: Glen Campbell’s Musical Narratives of Ageing, Alzheimer’s Disease, and CareSimon Buck Chapter 8 A Glut of Slippers: The Chronotope of Older Age in the Contemporary North American Short Story Elizabeth BarryChapter 9 Old Friends: Reimagining Care Relations through Helen Garner’s The Spare RoomSally ChiversChapter 10Care, Generations and Reciprocity in Children’s Picturebooks in JapanKatsura Sako and Sarah Falcus