Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters

Nassim W. Balestrini; Julia Hoydis; Anna-Christina Kainradl; Ulla Kriebernegg

doi:10.5771/9781666914757

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1474-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1475-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
‌‌Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
1. “A World in Flux” No access
2. Footprints in the Jungle No access
3. “Zoological Outcasts” and the Aging Other‌‌ in Jean Rhys’s Late Short Stories No access
4. Embodying Age(ing) in the Non-Human World in Lorna Crozier’s Poetry No access
5. Beyond Reproductive Futurism No access
6. Time Travel, Age/ing, and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020) No access
1. Imagining Longevity and Sustainability in Walter Besant’s The Inner House No access
2. Literature and the “Cultural Scripting” of Aging and Dying No access
3. Caring (for) Futures No access
4. Old(er) Women and the Apocalypse No access
5. Learning to Live Well within Limits No access
1. Emergent Cosmic Return No access
Index No access Pages 225 - 228
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 229 - 234