This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including topics such as older men’s health problems, body changes and shifting perceptions of sexual prowess, depression, loneliness and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, changing notions and appraisals of time, new relationships, and affective patterns. The collection does not only explore the interrelationship of age and gender, but also incorporates factors such as race-ethnicity, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies of popular fiction such as the works of Stephen King, the autobiographical novels by Philip Roth and Paul Auster, aging men of color in African and Arab American literature, as well as aging gay men in U.S. fiction. Ultimately, this study aims to prove that there is no common male vision of aging, but that men’s aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture, are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.  weiterlesen