Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Global Masculinities)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
No Country for Old Men? An Introduction
	Works Cited
Gendering Age
Harvest Time for Updike’s Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder Than Gender
	Introduction
	Harry’s Aging Crisis
	Breaking Gender Boundaries
	New Sexual Pleasure
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
	Works Cited
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
	Masculinities and the Aging Male Body
	Jane Smiley’s a Thousand Acres (1991): Holding on to Privilege
	Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge (2008): Intimacy and Vulnerability
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
Men’s Aging in Popular Fiction
“You Are All Too Old to Do Anything but Get Yourselves Killed:” Age and Masculinity in Stephen King’s It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep
	Introduction: Age and the Pitfalls of Patriarchal Masculinity
	Horror, Stephen King’s It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep and Old Age
	Middle-Age Men, Masculinity, and Strategies of Contestation in Stephen King’s It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
‘‘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
	Space Cowboys in the New Frontier
	Aging in the Final Frontier: Kirk/Shatner and Picard/Stewart as Old Men on Screen
	Picard 2.0 and Shatner’s Samuel Lord: A New Perspective of Aging Masculinity
	Conclusion: “I Was Not Living, I Was Waiting to Die”. Toward a New Portrayal of the Aging Male Body
	Works Cited
Older Men in Autobiography and Memoir
Self-Representation “Between Two”: Aging Males and the “Otherness Within” in Philip Roth’s Patrimony
	The Trope of the Maternal-Feminine and the Ethics of the Relationship with the Elderly as “Other”
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal
	The Body as a Text Composed of Scars and Pains
	The Body in Rooms/The Rooms as Bodies
	Works Cited
Aging Beyond Whiteness
Black Masculinities and Aging in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Love
	Aging and Black Masculinity
	Cholly vs. Blue Jack: Belonging, Hierarchy of Masculinities, and Trauma in The Bluest Eye
	Dark Vs. Sandler: Parenting, Interdependence, and Healing in Love
	Works Cited
Aging Men in Contemporary Arab American Literature Written by Women
	Gerontological Studies on Arab American Communities
	Arabian Jazz and Crescent: Non-Constrictive Aging Father Figures in the Fiction of Diana Abu-Jaber
	Going Going and a Map of Home: Alternative Manhoods in Transnational Grandfathers
	The Disengagement of Arab American Men in Old Age: The Case of Ibrahim in The Night Counter
	The Nuances of Transnationalism in Promoting Alternative Arab (American) Aging Masculinities
	Works Cited
Queering Age
Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
	Introduction
	Rethinking Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Male Fiction(s)
	Works Cited
On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
	Molarity, Molecularity, and Becoming-Animal
	Old Age and Homosexuality
	Fable, Childhood and Memory
	Metaphors of the Sick, Elderly Dog
	Conclusion: Becoming Lily
	Works Cited
Index