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  title info:
    title: Aging Experiments: Futures and Fantasies of Old Age
  name:
    name part: Guimarães, João Paulo.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Transcript Verlag
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Unnatural Aging -- Fantasies of Agelessness and Age Hierarchies in Mary Poppins Returns -- Doris Lessing's Eccentric Old Women -- The Old Child in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Series -- Life after Youth -- "how to dance / sitting down" -- Dancing Relational Bodyhood -- A Recognition of Certain Realities -- A Measure of Dignity? -- Crones, Care Homes, and Crises -- Eternity is Nothing but a Second -- Queering Time, Questioning Ageism Through Speculative Siction -- Authors
  subject:
    topic: Aging in literature
  subject:
    topic: Youth in literature
  subject:
    topic: Vieillissement dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Jeunesse dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Social Science / Gerontology
  classification: PN56.O4
  classification: 809.93355
  identifier: 3839462835
  identifier: 9783839462836
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: SMC
    record creation date: 230821
    record change date: 20240212223904.3
    record identifier: in00004777127
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng