Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the fictional representation of ageing, dementia and migrant home care in Ireland in Oona Frawley’s debut novel Flight (2014) and how the tropes of in/difference and silence best befit this representation. Drawing upon the tenets of literary gerontology and the Irish perspectives on ageing and dementia the analysis focuses on the multiple individual and community challenges the novel depicts – those of patients’ and onlookers’ perspectives, the fourth age and demise. Accordingly, the novel becomes the site of denunciation and interrogation of social and institutional responses to ageing and migrant home care. The analysis concludes that Frawley’s fiction represents the potential of individual stories of ageing and care to envisage new futures within a global Irish society that is constantly changing. Ultimately, these stories are directly related to a wider social, historical, economic and political context in contemporary Ireland that enforces silence and in/difference.
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