Aging Studies and Ecocriticism by Katrina Dunn

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism by Katrina Dunn

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.

This book is a smart and insightful collection of chapters exploring “growing old at the end of the world” I was immediately taken in by the similarities between aging studies and ecocritical approaches to understanding and deconstructing temporalities and the passing of time and couldn’t help but wonder: Why has it taken so long to have a book such as this? It will become required reading for my future classes. -- Kate de Medeiros, professor of sociology and gerontology, Miami University
This remarkable book tackles the relationship between two interdisciplinary fields: Aging Studies and Ecocriticism. The issues presented in this volume are thought-provoking. The depth of dialogue challenges the reader to think in more complex terms about the encounters between the two fields. The text is full of fresh ideas which will surely serve as a major resource for the needed scholarly interaction between environmental and aging studies in the humanities. -- Benyamin Schwarz, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Architectural Studies, the University of Missouri

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.

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ISBN 13	9781666914740
ISBN 10	1666914746
Title	Aging Studies and Ecocriticism
Author	Nassim W Balestrini
Series	Ecocritical Theory And Practice
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2023-08-15
Number of pages	242
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