Title: Reading ageism in “geezer and grump lit”: Responses to The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83, ¼
Abstract: • Literary gerontology should study the norms and values that underlie middle-brow genres like "geezer and grump lit" • Bringing reader responses together increases our understanding of the cultural work that a novel like The Secret Diary does • Increasing public knowledge of ageism contributes to resisting novels that stereotype older people • We have to remain critical of literature that mainly reduces later life to a quest for everlasting youth
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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