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- ItemEmbargo"Yes, that's me singing to myself": Jackie Kay's "These are not my clothes" as a Self-Affirming Narrative of Care in Old Age(Oxford University Press, 2024-02-28) Oró Piqueras, Maricel; Casado Gual, Núria; Vizcaíno, VerónicaFictional stories set in care homes have increased in the last decades and, with them, the perspectives from which care homes are constructed and represented have become diversified. Care home stories. Aging, disability, and long-term residential care. Transcript Verlag]. Through the alternative worlds that are offered by literary narratives, these stories allow the reader to glimpse into the increasingly varied possibilities of care that a residential settlement can offer. At the same time, they highlight the attributes attached to human beings once their bodies are not regarded as fully functional or able by their carers and society at large. Jackie Kay’s short story “These are not my clothes” (2011) presents a highly symbolic care-home narrative in which constant practices of depersonalized care and infantilization lead to the inevitable dehumanization of the residents and their eventual deterioration. Through the viewpoint of its female protagonist, Margaret, Kay creates a personal, poignant and, at times, also humorous narrative of care that undermines prevailing images of the so-called fourth age as a period of extreme cognitive deterioration. Drawing from theories of care and the interdisciplinary field of aging studies, especially in connection with theories of embodiment and old age and social approaches to aging, this article offers a close reading of Kay’s short story as both an assertive narrative on the fourth age, and as an insubordinate story of care, which can serve as a model to both gerontologists and care practitioners.
- ItemOpen AccessDiane Keaton's late films: aging gracefully for the silvering screen(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-05-12) Casado Gual, Núria; Oró Piqueras, MaricelThis article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the normative aspects of gendered old age that are also perpetuated through Keaton’s late-life representations of aging femininity, and which troublingly reiterate Hollywood’s normative white heterosexuality.
- ItemOpen AccessLa Internacionalització del Currículum a Casa: Una intervenció pilot per promoure la interculturalitat i el plurilingüisme a l’aula de Docència en Anglès(CIDUI Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació, 2024) Sabaté Dalmau, Maria; Cots Caimons, Josep Maria; Frumuselu, Anca Daniela; Cots Caimons, Josep MariaL’estudi presenta el disseny i resultats d’una intervenció basada en la Internacionalització del Currículum i el desenvolupament de la Competència Global en la Docència en Anglès. Partint de gravacions, entrevistes i materials d’aula, mostra que l’alumnat, malgrat mostrar sensibilitat vers la interculturalitat i ser proactiu en la interacció amb altri, encara reprodueix marcs etnocèntrics i veu el plurilingüisme com una excepció. Això permet explorar els reptes d’educar en la ciutadania global.
- ItemOpen AccessConflicting Female Identities in Old Age: The Representation of Older Women in David Lindsay-Abaire’s "Ripcord"(Association of Young Researchers of Anglophone Studies, 2020) Shevchenko Hotsuliak, InesaIn the last decades, ageing has become one of the most important social issues to attract the attention of academics from the social sciences and the humanities. As an interdisciplinary research domain, ageing studies allow scholars to explore the meanings of old age through the various fields that intersect with it. As one of those intersections, theatre offers unquestionable opportunities to analyse its portrayals and to dispute the dominant “master narrative of decline” based on a vision of ageing as an inevitable biological, psychological and social decay (Gullette 2004). Despite the increasing interest of scholars in the analysis of old age in widely-acclaimed classical and contemporary plays, scant attention has been paid to the representation of older female characters in lesser known dramatic texts. While their thriving visibility in the contemporary plays is undeniable, the portrayal of older female characters is rather ambiguous as often based on ageist stereotypes. This paper offers a close reading of Ripcord, a comedy by the American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, David Lindsay-Abaire, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rabbit Hole. Foregrounding issues of care related to senior living facilities, as well as aspects of old-age identity and of later-life creativity, this study interrogates liminal and stereotyped categorizations of older female characters in contemporary plays through one particular case study.
- ItemEmbargoMultilingual ELF and European identity – contributions from study abroad through the Erasmus programme(Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-05-27) Mocanu, Vasilica; Llurda, EnricThis article analyses the relationship between study abroad through the Erasmus Programme, European identity, and the role of English as a Lingua Franca in identification processes with Europe. It focuses on three groups of European higher-education students (N = 155) from different nationalities (N = 26) that participated in a sojourn abroad in three European contexts which are thought to represent Northern (Oulu, Finland); Eastern (Bucharest, Romania); and Southern (Lleida, Catalonia) Europe. The study follows a PRE–POST design, corresponding to the beginning and end of the participants’ experience abroad and it analyses quantitative data collected through questionnaires. The results of the study indicate that contrary to what is claimed by the European Commission, studying abroad through the Erasmus programme does not have a substantial impact on the development of an alleged European identity. These results contrast with those on the value that the participants allocated to the English language, which is perceived as a means that unifies European youth.