Amelia DeFalco is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative. In 2009 she received the Polanyi Prize for literature from the Government of Ontario.

• Introduction: Literature, Care, and CanadaChapter 1. Embedded and Embodied: Caregiving, Life Writing and the Myth of the Autonomous IndividualChapter 2. Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood’s Moral DisorderChapter 3. Caring for Relative Others: Alterity and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar TissueChapter 4. “Parodies of Love”: Demands of Care in Alice MunroChapter 5. Caregiving and Caretaking: Affective Economies in Alice MunroChapter 6. Forgetting and the Forgotten: Care at the Margins in David Chariandy’s SoucouyantConclusion: Imagining The Future of Care

"DeFalco enacts a feminist critique that connects ethical philosophies of care to literary representations of caregiving."- Sirhiy Bilenky, David Eso (Canadian Literature 232 Spint 2017) "Imagining Care is a well-written and well-researched book that considers ethical dilemmas in Canadian literature and argues for a reconsideration of the notion that Canada is unquestionably benevolent…The book is an excellent addition to the corpus of critical work on Canadian literature. It points to ways in which writing in Canada addresses urgent questions on the complexities of ethics and care."- Laura K. Davis, Red Deer College (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018) ‘It is a fine, thought-provoking, and eminently suggestive study… DeFalco undertakes important work in studying care and its effects – not only those effects necessary and desirable, but also those precarious and perilous-on the many who require care and the many others called on to be their caregivers.’- David Staines (Modern Fiction Studies vol 63:04:2017)