Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

Chapter 1 No Country for Old Men? An Introduction

Chapter 2 Harvest Time for Updike’s Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder Than Gender

Chapter 3 Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex

Chapter 4 The Aging Male Body as a Contested Site of Privilege: Literary Representations in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge

Chapter 5 “You Are All Too Old to Do Anything but Get Yourselves Killed:” Age and Masculinity in Stephen King’s It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep

Chapter 6 ‘‘To Oldie Go”: From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier

Chapter 7 Self-Representation “Between Two”: Aging Males and the “Otherness Within” in Philip Roth’s Patrimony

Chapter 8 Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal

Chapter 9 Black Masculinities and Aging in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Love

Chapter 10 Aging Men in Contemporary Arab American Literature Written by Women

Chapter 11 Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

Chapter 12 On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus