The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English
Edited by Maria Vidal-Grau and Núria Casado-Gual
Contents Acknowledgements iv Preface vii Introduction ix Susan BallynAn Interview with Terri-ann White 3 Nela Bureu Ramos Ageing and the Muses: Another Approach to the Poetry of Judith Wright 7 Núria Casado GualBlack Skins, Old Masks. Ageing through Racism in Edgar Nkosi White’s Drama 17 “The Gulf between Books and Experience Is a Lonely Ocean.” An Interview with Zadie Smith 37 Gordon CollierLight Shed on Darkness: ‘Homo Senilis’ in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Old Fools’ 45 Emma Domínguez Rué “I May Not Be a Lady, but I'm All a Woman”: Triumphant Middle Age in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground 63 Pere Gallardo Torrano Who Wants to Live Forever? An Interview with James L. Halperin on Life, Death and His Novel The First Immortal 73 Billy Gray“Lucky the Culture Where the Old Can Talk to the Young and the Young Can Talk to the Old” – A Conversation with Doris Lessing 83 Maria O’NeillThe Kaleidoscope. A Personal Perspective on Four Woman Poets’ Approach to the Phases of Life 99 Maricel Oró PiquerasThe Ups and Downs of Ageing in Rose Tremain’s Sadler’s Birthday and The Cupboard 113 Dora Sales SalvadorAs Time Goes By... between Cultures? Vikram Chandra’s Fictions and the Circle of Life 125 The Passing of Time and the Flowing of the Self: In Conversation with Vikram Chandra 135 Isabel Santaulària CapdevilaHorror, Monstrosity and Old Age in Stephen King’s Insomnia and Apt Pupil 141 Brian WorsfoldAgeing Patriarchs in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Charles Mungoshi’s Waiting for the Rain and Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame 155 Carmen Zamorano LlenaFrom Loneliness to Solitude in a Post-feminist Age: Redefining Love in the Second Half of Life in Clare Boylan’s Beloved Stranger 177 Notes on contributors 201 |