Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Illustrations xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism 1
7. Chapter 1 Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant- Garde 22
8. Chapter 2 The Special Collections of Samuel Steward 50
9. Chapter 3 Ivan Albright’s Anti- Antiaging Treatments 78
10. Chapter 4 Tillie Olsen and the Old- Old Left 107
11. Chapter 5 Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang 137
12. Chapter 6 The Harlem Renaissance as Told by “Lesbian Elder” Mabel Hampton 173
13. Coda: After Jacob Lawrence at Iona Senior Services 202
14. Notes 209
15. Index 251