Narratives of Life: Mediating Age
Heike Hartung · Roberta Maierhofer
Jan 2009 · Aging studies in Europe Book 1 · LIT Verlag Münster
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The prospect of increasing longevity has turned aging and old age into a topic of concern in Western societies. The discourse of age and the proliferation of narrative in contemporary media culture both transgress disciplinary boundaries. Addressing the "narratives of life" from different disciplinary angles this volume aims to explore the scope of a narrative gerontology. Aging and the stories that are told about it or from within are transnational and transcultural phenomena. While aging is thus a universal process, attention is also drawn to the categories of difference that it evokes: Historical, social and cultural differences as well as gender differences.
About the author
Heike Hartung is a research assistent at the University of Greifswald in Germany.
Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American culture and literature at the University in Graz, Austria.
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