Queer Aging In North American Fiction

Author : Linda M. Hess
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030034666
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Aging in North American Fiction written by Linda M. Hess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously unheeded intersection within American culture. At a time when older LGBTQ persons gradually gain visibility in gerontological studies and in the media, this work provides a critical perspective concerned with the ways in which the narratives and images we have at our disposal shape our realities. Each chapter shines a spotlight on a significant work of queer fiction, beginning with post-WWII novels and ending with filmic representations of the 2010s, exploring narratives as both reflections and agents of broader cultural negotiations concerning queer sexuality and aging. As a result, the book not only redresses queer aging’s history of invisibility, but also reveals narratives of queer aging to be particularly apt in casting new light on the ways in which growing older is perceived and conceptualized in North American culture.

Author : Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303150917X
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging written by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Falcus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350204358
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film written by Sarah Falcus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Nassim W. Balestrini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666914754
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Studies and Ecocriticism written by Nassim W. Balestrini and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.

Author : João Paulo Guimarães
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839462835
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Experiments written by João Paulo Guimarães and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.

Author : Elizabeth Barry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845717
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Ageing written by Elizabeth Barry and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

Author : Joel Gwynne
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030400646
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema written by Joel Gwynne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture.

Author : Virpi Ylänne
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447362047
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing and the Media written by Virpi Ylänne and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars, this international collection examines different dimensions of ageing and ageism in a range of media and how older adults use and interact with the media.

Author : Stefan L. Brandt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643507976
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Oddities written by Stefan L. Brandt and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City" approaches a space (and place) central to the American imagination-the city. In particular, this volume discusses the paradoxes of American cities and American urban life. In this way, the book critically engages with the paradoxes of the American identity, embodied by cultural practices in, and cultural representations of, urban life in the United States. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 16) [Subject: Sociology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies]

Author : Marlene Goldman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000586073
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Humanities and Ageing written by Marlene Goldman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population. Divided into four parts: Part I: What Does It Mean to Grow Old? Part II: Aging: Old Age and Disability Part III: Aging, Old Age, and Activism Part IV: Old Age and Humanistic Approaches to Care the volume provides an innovative, two-part structure that facilitates rather than merely encourages interdisciplinary collaboration across the humanities and social sciences. Each essay is thus followed by two short critical responses from disciplinary viewpoints that diverge from that of the essay’s author. Drawing on work from across the humanities - philosophy, fine arts, religion, and literature, this book will be a useful supplemental text for courses on age studies, sociology and gerontology at both undergraduate and graduate levels.