Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Interdisciplinary Encounters
Herausgeber: Balestrini, Nassim W.; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Hoydis, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents the first substantial encounter between aging studies and ecocriticism. By putting both fields into conversation, it addresses competing ideologies of efficiency, exploitation, and endurance versus those of sustenance, care, and survival.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781666914740
• ISBN-10: 1666914746
• Artikelnr.: 67992615

Autorenporträt

Nassim Winnie Balestrini is professor of American studies and intermediality at the University of Graz, Austria. Julia Hoydis is professor of English literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Anna-Christina Kainradl is pre-doctoral researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria. Ulla Kriebernegg is professor in cultural aging and care studies and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla
Kriebernegg: Time, Relationality, and Fears of Ending: Encounters between
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism
Part I "Aging Bodies and Environments"
1 Silvia Gerlsbeck: "A World in Flux": Temporality, Aging, and
Environmental Change in V.S. Naipaul's Late Work
2 Christian Lenz: Footprints in the Jungle: Creating a Legacy in the
Rainforest
3 Jade E. French: "Zoological Outcasts" and the Aging Other in Jean Rhys's
Late Short Stories
4 Núria Mina-Riera: Embodying Age(ing) in the Non-Human World in Lorna
Crozier's Poetry
5 Simon Dickel: Beyond Reproductive Futurism: Harold and Maude's Ecological
Aesthetics
6 Tina-Karen Pusse and Michaela Schrage-Früh: Time Travel, Age/ing and
Ecology in the German Netflix Series
Dark (2017-2020)
Part II "Growing Old Amid Environmental Crises"
7 Adrian Tait: Imagining Longevity and Sustainability in Walter Besant's
The Inner House and William Morris' News from Nowhere
8 Stephen Hahn: Literature and the "Cultural Scripting" of Aging and Dying
9 Julia Hoydis: Caring (for) Futures: Intergenerational Justice in
Contemporary Drama
10 Julia Henderson and Katrina Dunn: Old(er) Women and the Apocalypse:
Three Dramatic Representations
11 Albert Banerjee: Learning to Live Well within Limits: Exploring the
Existential Lessons of Climate Change and an Aging Population
Part III Afterword
12 Peter J. Whitehouse: Emergent Cosmic Return: The Field of Possibilities
for Aging in a Proposed New Geological Epoch
About the Authors