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This multidisciplinary collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives. By shedding light on these cu...
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The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, the contributions widen our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and demonstrate that a shift in perspectives might in fact challenge a number of taken-for-granted positions and presumptions of aging studies.
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Price: $55.00
Pages: 390
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Aging Studies
Publication Date: 15 February 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837645545
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet), HISTORY / Social History
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Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. She studied Slavic and Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Graz, Moscow and Rouen and holds two master's and a doctoral degree from the University of Graz. She specializes in literary and cultural studies with a focus on 20th-century Russian literature, gender and age/aging studies. In her PhD thesis (2002) she analyzed representations of women's aging in Russian literature. Her current research project focuses on narratives of homecoming in Russian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature of exile. Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl was granted the Prof. Paul Petry Award in Aging Studies in 1998; she is an alumna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS). In 2011 she was granted the Excellence in Teaching Award of the University of Graz.
Oana Hergenröther (PhD) is a researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. Her focus is on literary studies and on plurilingualism in contemporary cultures and societies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 9
Introduction 11
Old Age in the Balkans 33
Co-Residence of Elderly Persons with Children and Grandchildren in Eastern and Southeast Europe 51
"University Elders,"Young Professors" and Students_A Generational Approach to the History of Higher Education in Russia in the Late 19th Century_71_90__Saburova, Tatiana{0000027038}
Changes in Soviet Academia's Age-Related Personnel Policies during the Cold War 91
No Country for Old People 111
Meanings of Getting Old in Post-Transition Serbia 127
On Nearness and Distance 149
The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Communication 179
The Elderly in Russia 207
Aging in Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Literature 235
Ageless, Vital, Immortal 253
Noticing Signs and Stereotypes of Aging 271
Does Genre Matter? 291
Traumatic Aging in Borisav Stankovi and Milos Crnjanski 311
The Dark Past of Family 335
The Hag and the Egg 357
Commemorating Russia's Great Old Women 371
Contributors 379