Queer aging in North American fiction. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Linda M. Hess.
• Authors: Hess, Linda M
• Contents: 1| Introduction: Queer Aging and the Significance of Representation A Conspicuous Absence Locating Queer Aging Core Themes Overview of Chapters Part I: The Confines of Straight Time 2 | The Older Lesbian as Predator: Dorothy Baker's Trio: A Novel (1943) Lesbian Visibility in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Age Relations: The Older Predator vs. the Younger Victim The Power of the Heteronormative Timeline Chrononormativity's Violence 3 | The Menace of Gay Aging: James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956) The Cultural Climate of the Cold War Era American Nationality and/as Compulsory Heterosexual Masculinity The Stereotypical Figure of the Aging Gay Man The Reader's Critical Perspective Part II: In an Era of Liberations 4 | Lesbian Feminist Aging: June Arnold's Sister Gin (1975) The Influence of (Lesbian) Feminism Menopause as a New Beginning Defying Stereotypes of Asexuality Anger as Politics 5 | Gay Times in NYC: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance (1978) In the Wake of the Stonewall Riots The Economy of the Body Failing the Heteronormative Future The Margins of the Cultural Screen Part III: Transitions of the 1990s 6 | Gay Aging after AIDS: Andrew Holleran's The Beauty of Men (1996) The Impact of the AIDS Crisis Age Anxiety in the Age of AIDS Trajectories and Spaces of Decline Living in Limbo – Lark's Queer Temporality 7 | Visible Old Lesbians: Suzette Mayr's The Widows (1998) Lesbian Hypervisibility and Postmodern Canadian Literature Bearing a New Self Desire and the Failures of the Aging Body The Widow as (Ghosted) Lesbian Part IV: Queer Aging in the Young Twenty-First Century 8 | New Stories About Gay Aging: Mike Mills' Beginners (2010) Into the Twenty-First Century Constructing Identity Through Narrative The Framework of History Becoming Real 9 | Lesbian Aging Hits The Road: Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst (2011) Twenty-First Century Lesbian Road Movie A Salty Old Woman Physical Decline, Ageism, and Caregiving Marriage Equality and Kinship Systems Part V: Queer Aging Now 10 | Conclusion: Ask What Queer Aging Can Do For You Tracing a History The Current Moment of Queer Aging in North American Fiction The Future (of Queer Aging) Is Now Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.009; American fiction -- History and criticism; Aging in literature; Sexual orientation in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030034665
• Related ISBNs: 9783030034658
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