Fierce with Reality (eBook)

Literature on Aging

Margaret Cruikshank (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
192 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6871-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Fierce with Reality presents a diverse range of literature on aging that demonstrates the challenges, complexities and pleasurable aspects of late life. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural.

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The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktales from Asia and Iraq. Fierce with Reality highlights writings by women, from late 19th century American literature to the present. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural. Fierce with Reality, aimed at a general audience as well as students and professors, would be ideal for book groups.

Autor

Margaret Cruikshank retired from the women’s studies faculty at the University of Maine, where she is currently an associate of the university’s Center on Aging. She is the author of Learning to be Old: gender, culture and aging, 3rd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

Inhalt

The Old Poets of China, Mary OliverAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: A Kaleidoscope of ImagesChapter 2: Homage to GrandmothersChapter 3: Strength and WisdomChapter 4: Aging is Not for SissiesChapter 5: Growth and ChangeChapter 6: Defiance and Self-DeterminationChapter 7: LossChapter 8: HumorChapter 9: AgeismChapter 10: The Fountain of Youth: Two Asian VersionsChapter 11: ReflectionsAbout the EditorSuggested Reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Ageism • images of older people • images of older women • Literature and aging • multicultural literature • stereotypes of the old • the new aging
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6871-2 / 0761868712
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6871-2 / 9780761868712