Books - Sako, Katsura

'Contemporary Narratives of Dementia in Japan.' In Paul Crawford and Paul Kadetz (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Health Humanities

Katsura Sako, Springer, 2023.10,  Page： 1-8

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‘Ageing and Care in Contemporary Women’s Writing: Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby’ In Gina Wisker, Leanne Bibby and Heidi Yeandle (eds), Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing

Katsura Sako, Palgrave, 2023.07

Contact page： 165-187

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'Dementia in Japanese Cinema: Family and Rural Nostalgia.' In Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung and Raquel Medina (eds), Bloomsbury Handbook of Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Katsura Sako, Bloomsbury, 2023.06

Contact page： 313-324

"A Few Good Old Men: Revising Ageing Masculinities in Last Tango in Halifax." In Sara Martín and M. Isabel Santaulària (eds), Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men

Maricel Oró-Piqueras and Katsura Sako, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023.03

Contact page： 251-266 , Accepted

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The ideal ageing masculinity is expressed in the fit able body that signifies physical and sexual functionality and productive citizenship. British TV series Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020), however, questions this idealised configuration. Focusing on the main male protagonist, Alan Buttershaw, this chapter analyses the various ways in which the series depicts his caring personality and the vulnerable ageing masculinity that he represents, through romantic and intergenerational narratives and in relation to other characters who differently highlight and interrogate hegemonic masculinity. As the analysis demonstrates, Alan is one of the ‘few good old men’, a form of ageing masculinity characterised by caring and an openness to vulnerability, qualities that are often repressed in youth.

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Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus , Routledge, 2022

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'Care, Generations and Reciprocity in Children's Picturebooks in Japan.' In Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus (eds), Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus, Routledge, 2022

Scope: 177-199

'Ageing and Detective Fiction.' In: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

Katsura Sako, Springer, 2019.05

Scope: Ageing and Detective Fiction,  Contact page： 163-164

Contemporary narratives of dementia: Ethics, ageing, politics

Falcus S., Sako K., Routledge, 2019.01

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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.

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'Women, Travelling and Later Life' in Imelda Whelehan & Joel Gwynne (Eds.), Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones

Sarah Falcus and Katsura SAKO, Palgrave, 2014.11

Scope: 203-218

'Others in "Self-Conscious" Biography: A. S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale' in Geoffrey Baker & Eva Aldea (Eds.), Realism’s Others

Katsura SAKO, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010

Scope: 277-92