Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus

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Synopsis: 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 literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre performance, photography and music. The collection has a broad geographical scope with case studies and primary texts from Europe and North America but also from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. The volume asks what care, autonomy and dependence may mean and how these may be inflected by social and cultural specificities. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on our relations to others as we face the global and local challenges of both the pandemic and ageing societies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 208 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000536522
Related ISBNs:: 9781003058618, 9780367528393, 9781032200149
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/30/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Katsura Sako
Edited by:: Sarah Falcus