â Scribed by Josep M. Armengol (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that menâs aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
No Country for Old Men? An Introduction
Works Cited
Gendering Age
Harvest Time for Updikeâs Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder Than Gender
Introduction
Harryâs Aging Crisis
Breaking Gender Boundaries
New Sexual Pleasure
Conclusion
Works Cited
Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiriâs âThe Third and Final Continentâ and Jeffrey Eugenidesâ Middlesex
Works Cited
The Aging Male Body as a Contested Site of Privilege: Literary Representations in Jane Smileyâs A Thousand Acres and Elizabeth Stroutâs Olive Kitteridge
Masculinities and the Aging Male Body
Jane Smileyâs a Thousand Acres (1991): Holding on to Privilege
Elizabeth Stroutâs Olive Kitteridge (2008): Intimacy and Vulnerability
Conclusions
Works Cited
Menâs Aging in Popular Fiction
âYou Are All Too Old to Do Anything but Get Yourselves Killed:â Age and Masculinity in Stephen Kingâs It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep
Introduction: Age and the Pitfalls of Patriarchal Masculinity
Horror, Stephen Kingâs It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep and Old Age
Middle-Age Men, Masculinity, and Strategies of Contestation in Stephen Kingâs It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep
Conclusion
Works Cited
ââTo Oldie Goâ: From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier
Space Cowboys in the New Frontier
Aging in the Final Frontier: Kirk/Shatner and Picard/Stewart as Old Men on Screen
Picard 2.0 and Shatnerâs Samuel Lord: A New Perspective of Aging Masculinity
Conclusion: âI Was Not Living, I Was Waiting to Dieâ. Toward a New Portrayal of the Aging Male Body
Works Cited
Older Men in Autobiography and Memoir
Self-Representation âBetween Twoâ: Aging Males and the âOtherness Withinâ in Philip Rothâs Patrimony
The Trope of the Maternal-Feminine and the Ethics of the Relationship with the Elderly as âOtherâ
Conclusion
Works Cited
Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Austerâs Winter Journal
The Body as a Text Composed of Scars and Pains
The Body in Rooms/The Rooms as Bodies
Works Cited
Aging Beyond Whiteness
Black Masculinities and Aging in Toni Morrisonâs The Bluest Eye and Love
Aging and Black Masculinity
Cholly vs. Blue Jack: Belonging, Hierarchy of Masculinities, and Trauma in The Bluest Eye
Dark Vs. Sandler: Parenting, Interdependence, and Healing in Love
Works Cited
Aging Men in Contemporary Arab American Literature Written by Women
Gerontological Studies on Arab American Communities
Arabian Jazz and Crescent: Non-Constrictive Aging Father Figures in the Fiction of Diana Abu-Jaber
Going Going and a Map of Home: Alternative Manhoods in Transnational Grandfathers
The Disengagement of Arab American Men in Old Age: The Case of Ibrahim in The Night Counter
The Nuances of Transnationalism in Promoting Alternative Arab (American) Aging Masculinities
Works Cited
Queering Age
Sex and Text: Queering Older Menâs Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Introduction
Rethinking Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Male Fiction(s)
Works Cited
On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
Molarity, Molecularity, and Becoming-Animal
Old Age and Homosexuality
Fable, Childhood and Memory
Metaphors of the Sick, Elderly Dog
Conclusion: Becoming Lily
Works Cited
Index
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