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Aging Experiments

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The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The ...
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  • 26 September 2023
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The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 226
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837662832
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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João Paulo Guimarães holds a PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo, was an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin and is currently a junior researcher at the Universidade do Porto. His research concentrates on experimental poetry and science studies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Unnatural Aging 9
Fantasies of Agelessness and Age Hierarchies in Mary Poppins Returns 17
Doris Lessing's Eccentric Old Women 33
The Old Child in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Series 47
Life after Youth 53
"how to dance / sitting down" 73
Dancing Relational Bodyhood 97
A Recognition of Certain Realities 125
A Measure of Dignity? 141
Crones, Care Homes, and Crises 155
Eternity is Nothing but a Second 175
Queering Time, Questioning Ageism Through Speculative Siction 199
Authors 219