Herring Aging Moderns

Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55600-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herring, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism
1. Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant-Garde
2. The Special Collections of Samuel Steward
3. Ivan Albright’s Anti-Antiaging Treatments
4. Tillie Olsen and the Old-Old Left
5. Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang
6. The Harlem Renaissance as Told by “Lesbian Elder” Mabel Hampton
Coda: After Jacob Lawrence at Iona Senior Services
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Herring is professor of American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. His books include The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture (2014), Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (2010), and Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (2007).