Putting Age into Place
This paper addresses cultural constructions of old age in two contemporary Canadian care home narratives. While John Mighton’s play Half Life (2005) is set in a prison-like long-term care facility that is represented as a site of homogenization, oppression, and infantilization, Joan Barfoot’s novel...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Danish Library
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Age, Culture, Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/130742 |