Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
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This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness

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