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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.

Table of Contents

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 No

Product details

Published 15 Aug 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 242
ISBN 9781666914740
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 236 x 161 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nassim W. Balestrini

Anthology Editor

Julia Hoydis

Anthology Editor

Anna-Christina Kainradl

Anthology Editor

Ulla Kriebernegg

Contributor

Julia Hoydis

Contributor

Albert Banerjee

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Simon Dickel

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Katrina Dunn

Contributor

Jade E. French

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Stephen Hahn

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Julia Henderson

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Christian Lenz

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Adrian Tait

Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular inte…

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