Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously unheeded intersection within American culture. At a time when older LGBTQ persons gradually gain visibility in gerontological studies and in th
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Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Linda M. Hess
Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Linda M. Hess Goethe University Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
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To my mother
Acknowledgments
This monograph began a number of years ago as a PhD project at the University of Münster (Germany). There are many people to whom I owe much gratitude for their contributions to its successful completion, who freely offered support, feedback, time, and encouragement over the years, and I would like to thank them wholeheartedly. I thank first of all my PhD advisor Katja Sarkowsky, for her sincere commitment to my project, her steady support through its different stages, and her valuable advice and insightful feedback at all critical junctures. I am grateful to my second advisor, Rai Peterson from Ball State University, for her keen support and encouragement, as well as to my colleagues in Augsburg, Münster, and Frankfurt, not to forget those I met through the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies. They have generously read and discussed with me various chapters of this project, and many have become friends as much as colleagues. I would like to mention particularly Ela Baraniecka, Ina Batzke, Danyela Demir, Eric Erbacher, Diana Gollne
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