Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging
Dec 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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192
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The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktales from Asia and Iraq. Fierce with Reality highlights writings by women, from late 19th century American literature to the present. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural. Fierce with Reality, aimed at a general audience as well as students and professors, would be ideal for book groups.
The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktal...
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About the author
Margaret Cruikshank retired from the womens studies faculty at the University of Maine, where she is currently an associate of the universitys Center on Aging. She is the author of Learning to be Old: gender, culture and aging, 3rd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
Margaret Cruikshank retired from the womens studies faculty at the University of Maine, where she is currently an associate of the universitys Center on Aging. She is the author of Learning to be Old: gender, culture and aging, 3rd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
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