SARAH FALCUS
Biographic Data
| ID | 6181441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | SARAH FALCUS |
| GIVEN NAMES | SARAH |
| FAMILY NAME | FALCUS |
| SIGNATURE | FALCUS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
Falcus, S., & Oró-Piqueras, M. (Eds.) (2023). Age and Ageing In Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. (1st ed.) (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230699
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia
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. Contemporar…
Becoming a Korean American cowgirl
Don Lee’s short story collection Yellow: Stories (2001) is set in a contemporary, post-immigrant US. In Lee’s ostensibly post-racial settings, race and racialization remain salient factors in defining the Asian American identities of his characters even as their agency and self-determination are acknowledged. The dialectic negotiation of ethnic identities is especially evident in “The Lone Night Cantina,” which presents a more complicated and pro…
Unsettling ageing in three novels by Pat Barker
Within the growing body of interdisciplinary work on ageing, more attention is now paid to literary engagement with and representations of ageing, often in the form of literary gerontology. This field locates literature as part of the cultural discourses around ageing in our society. Pat Barker's work, already the subject of some gerontological attention, is important here, because her texts offer detailed representations of the ageing subject, a…
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Unsettling ageing in three novels by Pat Barker
Within the growing body of interdisciplinary work on ageing, more attention is now paid to literary engagement with and representations of ageing, often in the form of literary gerontology. This field locates literature as part of the cultural discourses around ageing in our society. Pat Barker's work, already the subject of some gerontological attention, is important here, because her texts offer detailed representations of the ageing subject, a…
Becoming a Korean American cowgirl
Don Lee’s short story collection Yellow: Stories (2001) is set in a contemporary, post-immigrant US. In Lee’s ostensibly post-racial settings, race and racialization remain salient factors in defining the Asian American identities of his characters even as their agency and self-determination are acknowledged. The dialectic negotiation of ethnic identities is especially evident in “The Lone Night Cantina,” which presents a more complicated and pro…
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia
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. Contemporar…
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
Falcus, S., & Oró-Piqueras, M. (Eds.) (2023). Age and Ageing In Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. (1st ed.) (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230699
Art (4 works) · Ageing (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)