Aging Studies and Ecocriticism
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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Interdisciplinary Encounters

  1. 243 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Interdisciplinary Encounters

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. ‌‌Introduction
  5. Aging Bodies and Environments
  6. “A World in Flux”
  7. Footprints in the Jungle
  8. “Zoological Outcasts” and the Aging Other‌‌ in Jean Rhys’s Late Short Stories
  9. Embodying Age(ing) in the Non-Human World in Lorna Crozier’s Poetry
  10. Beyond Reproductive Futurism
  11. Time Travel, Age/ing, and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020)
  12. Growing Old Amid Environmental Crises
  13. Imagining Longevity and Sustainability in Walter Besant’s The Inner House
  14. Literature and the “Cultural Scripting” of Aging and Dying
  15. Caring (for) Futures
  16. Old(er) Women and the Apocalypse
  17. Learning to Live Well within Limits
  18. Afterword
  19. Emergent Cosmic Return
  20. Index
  21. About the Editors and Contributors