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All over: The identities of old age.

Marshall, Elena Ruth.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	All over: The identities of old age./
Author:	Marshall, Elena Ruth.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald Ross.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3283957
ISBN:	9780549274698

All over: The identities of old age.
Marshall, Elena Ruth.

All over: The identities of old age. - 238 p.

Adviser: Donald Ross.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.

All Over: The Identities of Old Age, argues that aging and relative age should be categories of analysis in literary and cultural studies like other body-based identities are, and it demonstrates the limitations of using age itself as a category. All Over demonstrates how experiences of age affect and are affected by gender, sexuality, bodily ability, race, ethnicity, and class. I first consider how contemporary self-help books, such as the best-selling The Wisdom of Menopause. Although such texts often take seemingly-oppositional stances to norms of middle age and aging, all to often they merely change the age at which people are labeled "old" while doing little to alter the underlying negative valuations of aging and old age. In the second section, I explore often-overlooked and strikingly different philosophies of senescence in African American, Native American, and European American literatures. For example, analyzing the customs, historical contexts, and cultural messages that form African American attitudes about aging, I show how Lucille Clifton's poetry reflects tools for resisting negative constructions of aging Black women's bodies. I argue that contemporary Native American writers' texts, such as Louise Erdrich's Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, perform a role previously assumed by elders across cultures: advancing some of the acts of social transmission necessary for cultural survival. In Diaries of a Good Neighbour, novels crafted to effect personal change, Doris Lessing effectively confronts and debunks younger EuroAmerican people's negative and divisive concepts of aging and old age. In the third section, I adapt current theoretical models to function as tools for Aging Studies. For instance, Judith Butler's ideas about the multiplicity of gender serve as a foundation for theorizations about the multiple rhetorics of aging and old age. I also consider a common experience of aging, self-misrecognition, which contains the potential to rework the ideas fixed during Jacque Lacan's mirror stage of childhood. Throughout, I engage the idea that one's age is culturally produced, dependent on context, and open to deconstruction and reconstruction, and demonstrate that age should be a category of literary and cultural exploration.

ISBN: 9780549274698Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

All over: The identities of old age.
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