Aging Moderns

Auteur
Scott Herring is professor of American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. His books include The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture (2014), Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (2010), and Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (2007).

Texte du rabat

What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism

1. Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant-Garde
2. The Special Collections of Samuel Steward
3. Ivan Albright's Anti-Antiaging Treatments
4. Tillie Olsen and the Old-Old Left
5. Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang
6. The Harlem Renaissance as Told by Lesbian Elder Mabel Hampton
   Coda: After Jacob Lawrence at Iona Senior Services
   Notes
   Index