Contemporary Narratives Of Ageing Illness Care

Author : Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000536522

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Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care by Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus Pdf

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. The authors 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 care in ageing societies.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Katsura Sako
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208235

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Contemporary Narratives of Dementia by Sarah Falcus,Katsura Sako Pdf

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help us to interrogate the cultural discourse of dementia. Contemporary Narratives of Dementia is a seminal book that offers a sustained examination of a wide range of literary narratives, from auto/biographies and detective fiction, to children’s books and comic books. With its wide-reaching theoretical and critical scope, its comparative dimension, and its inclusion of multiple genres, this book is important for scholars engaging with studies of dementia and ageing in diverse disciplines. Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has research interests in contemporary women’s writing, feminism and literary gerontology. She is the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative (DCN) network. Katsura Sako is an Associate Professor of English, at Keio University, Japan. Her main field of research is in post-war/contemporary British literature, and she has particular interests in gender, ageing and illness. She is a member of the steering committee of the DCN network.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204355

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350230675

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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction by Sarah Falcus,Maricel Oró-Piqueras Pdf

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.

Author : Emily Rhiannon Jeremiah,Shirley Ann Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-11-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3111042766

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Women's Narratives of Ageing and Care by Emily Rhiannon Jeremiah,Shirley Ann Jordan Pdf

Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as 'women's work'. Care of the old is particularly low in status and is too readily occluded. This volume asks why and how cultures of care for older people are negatively configured. It examines some of the powerful responses to relationships of intergenerational care in recent creative works by women. It thereby contributes to the contemporary imperative to transform care by investigating some of the ways in which care might be redefined and reconceptualized. Taking as its focus the representation or narrativization of care in theory, literature, visual culture, and performance, it engages with contemporary female-authored works from diverse cultural contexts, encouraging the development of comparative, cross-cultural perspectives. Narrative is key here, for it is in stories about ageing and care that the complexities and ambiguities of care relationships are made available, and that simplified ideas about them are challenged. This volume will be of interest to scholars in literary and cultural studies, gender studies, critical age studies, the medical and health humanities, and all who are interested in care.

Author : Victor Minichiello,Irene Coulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134220120

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Contemporary Issues in Gerontology by Victor Minichiello,Irene Coulson Pdf

Written by leading international experts, this book helps students and practitioners to better understand and cater for the needs of our ageing population. It examines: how services can be provided to meet the expectations and needs of a growing population of ageing citizens within a cost-effective, social justice and positive ageing framework how resources allocated to aged care can be distributed equitably to better meet the demands associated with housing, retirement, service provision and care how health promotion principles can contribute to a healthy older population. Investigating current critical debates in health and social science, the book explores innovative new approaches to aged care and ageing. By using international examples and a multidisciplinary approach, this comprehensive textbook provides a broad understanding of ageing from a social perspective and analyzes concepts of ageism, healthy ageing and positive ageing.

Author : Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031509179

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The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb Pdf

Author : Adriana Teodorescu,Dan Chiribucă
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000568318

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Shaping Ageing by Adriana Teodorescu,Dan Chiribucă Pdf

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Author : James Rupert Fletcher,Andrea Capstick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000937633

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A Critical History of Dementia Studies by James Rupert Fletcher,Andrea Capstick Pdf

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies. Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic interest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it draws on critical theory to interrogate the very notion of dementia studies as an entity, shedding light on the affinities and contradictions that characterise the field. Drawing together a collection of internationally renowned experts in a variety of fields, including people with dementia, this volume includes perspectives from education, the arts, human rights and much more. This critical history sets out the shared intellectual space of ‘dementia studies’, from which non-medical dementia research can progress. The book is intended for researchers, academics and students of dementia studies, social gerontology, disability, chronic illness, health and social care. It will also appeal to activists and practitioners engaged in social work and caregiving involved in dementia research.

Author : Vanessa Joosen,Michelle Anya Anjirbag,Leander Duthoy,Lindsey Geybels,Frauke Pauwels,Emma-Louise Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000934908

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Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre by Vanessa Joosen,Michelle Anya Anjirbag,Leander Duthoy,Lindsey Geybels,Frauke Pauwels,Emma-Louise Silva Pdf

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s literature: the age of the author, the characters, the writing style, the intended readership and the real reader. Moreover, the authors explore what different theories and methods can be used to study age in children’s literature, and what their affordances and limits are. The analyses combine age studies with life writing studies, cognitive narratology, digital humanities, comparative literary studies, reader-response research and media studies. To ensure coherence, the book offers an in-depth exploration of the oeuvre of a single author, David Almond. The aesthetic and thematic richness of Almond’s works has been widely recognised. This book adds to the understanding of his oeuvre by offering a multi-faceted analysis of age. In addition to discussing the film adaptation of his best-known novel Skellig, this book also offers analyses of works that have received less attention, such as Counting Stars, Clay and Bone Music. Readers will also get a fuller understanding of Almond as a crosswriter of literature for children, adolescents and adults.

Author : Rosemary Huisman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000688429

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Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time by Rosemary Huisman Pdf

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human – and non-human – experience, woven together (the ‘texture of time’) in the one narrative. The work of Gerald Edelman on consciousness, J.T. Fraser on time, and M.A.K. Halliday on language is introduced; the categories of systemic functional linguistics are used for detailed analysis of English narrative texts from different literary periods. A summary chapter gives an overview of previous narrative studies and theories, with extensive references. Chapters on ‘temporalization’ and ‘spatialization’ of language contrast the importance of time in narrative texts with the effect of ‘grammatical metaphor’, as described by M.A.K. Halliday, for scientific discourse. Chapters on prose fiction, poetry and the texts of digital culture chart changes in the ‘texture of time’ with changes in the social context: ‘narrative as social semiotic’.

Author : Esterino Adami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000644791

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Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts by Esterino Adami Pdf

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this study proposes the elaboration and application of postcolonial stylistics, i.e. an interdisciplinary methodology that uses different disciplines, such as literary linguistics and postcolonial studies as a critical lens to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair, and Megha Majumdar. The linguistic fabric of their fiction is investigated in a series of case studies, observing the stylistic rendition of a wide range of themes and tropes, such as the representation of Otherness, drug discourse, lament and the senses, which cumulatively portray aspects of the current Indian narrative scenario. The book develops ideas growing out of several disciplines to reach a fuller understanding of cultural phenomena in the postcolonial context, and by extension in the social world.

Author : Yasmin Gunaratnam,David Oliviere
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191006470

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Narrative and Stories in Health Care by Yasmin Gunaratnam,David Oliviere Pdf

The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care provides a vibrant, multidisciplinary examination of work with narrative and stories in contemporary health and social care, with a focus on the care of people who are ill and dying. It animates the academic literature with provocative 'real-world' examples from international contributors, including palliative care service users and those working in the social and human sciences, medicine, theology, and the creative arts. Narrative and Stories in Health Care addresses and clarifies core issues: What is a narrative? What is a story? What are some of the main methods and models that can be used and for what purposes? What practical and ethical dilemmas can the methods entail in work with illness, death and dying? As well as highlighting the power of stories to create new possibilities, the book also acknowledges the conceptual, methodological and ethnical problems and challenges inherent in narrative work. As the hospice and palliative care movement evolves to meet the challenges of 21st century health care, this fascinating book highlights how narratives and stories can be attended to in ways that are productive, ethical, and caring.

Author : Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031280931

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Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle Pdf

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.

Author : Pat Armstrong
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447366171

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Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes by Pat Armstrong Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it. Drawing on a range of research projects covering Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing homes. It demonstrates how boundaries between paid and unpaid work are flexible, varying considerably with conditions, time, place and intersectional populations. By examining the complex labour process within nursing homes, this book provides insight and understanding which will be critical in planning for nursing home care post-pandemic.