Issue 1
Age, Culture, Humanities transferred from the Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina University to the Royal Danish Library in Spring 2022. Please, visit the journal's new website https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/. The old website remains functional for the time being but will not be updated nor will it be open for submissions.
Age Studies Comes of Age Friendship. Literacy. Creativity. Performance. Senicide. Residence homes. Disciplinary history. Pedagogy. These are some of the…
Every movement needs a manifesto, a pronouncement against which old idols are smashed and vital new energies launched into being….
While examination of narratives written by and about older adults is, by now, recognized as crucial to the critical work of age studies, the overlapping projects of age studies and studies of literate activity (including writing) have not yet been sufficiently integrated. Through analysis of The First Grader, a film dramatizing the true story of an eighty-four-year-old Kenyan man who attends primary school in order to learn how to read and write, this essay illustrates the value in establishing deliberate cross-talk between age studies and writing studies through joint examination of literacy narratives: stories that capture both master and “little” narratives about literacy and learning. As a cinematic literacy narrative featuring an elder protagonist, The First Grader demonstrates how age meanings and age identities impact and challenge culturally endorsed perceptions of literacy and learning by uncritically representing prefigured ideas about literacy and old age, while also suggesting some critical alternatives. At the same time, the film acknowledges how literacy and learning contribute to, and are implicated by, the creation and circulation of the meanings of old age.
Let us imagine this situation for a moment: In the universities and centers of research, learning, and advocacy on women…
British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) died at the age of only sixty-three, but ill health in his last years parachuted…
I want to take a stand, stake a claim, stir the pot, and most certainly issue a “call to arms.”…
Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs. Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment. London: Anthem Press, 2013. 228 pp. $99.00. “In second modernity,…
A famous section of Virginia Woolf’s feminist treatise, A Room of One’s Own (1929), includes an impossible admonition. Woolf writes,…
Documentary film and television have played, and continue to play, a major role in shaping public conversations about standards of…