This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness

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.

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