Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Interdisciplinary Encounters

Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl , Ulla Kriebernegg

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 August 2023

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Age groups: the elderly; The natural world, country life & pets

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.

Contributions by: Nassim W. Balestrini
Edited by: Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 558g
ISBN: 9781666914740
ISBN 10: 1666914746
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nassim Winnie Balestrini is professor of American studies and intermediality at the University of Graz, Austria. Julia Hoydis is professor of English literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Anna-Christina Kainradl is pre-doctoral researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria. Ulla Kriebernegg is professor in cultural aging and care studies and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria.

Reviews for Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters

"This book is a smart and insightful collection of chapters exploring ""growing old at the end of the world."" I was immediately taken in by the similarities between aging studies and ecocritical approaches to understanding and deconstructing temporalities and the passing of time and couldn't help but wonder: Why has it taken so long to have a book such as this? It will become required reading for my future classes. This remarkable book tackles the relationship between two interdisciplinary fields: Aging Studies and Ecocriticism. The issues presented in this volume are thought-provoking. The depth of dialogue challenges the reader to think in more complex terms about the encounters between the two fields. The text is full of fresh ideas which will surely serve as a major resource for the needed scholarly interaction between environmental and aging studies in the humanities."