CFP: Narratives of Life: Aging and Identity (5/31/07;
collection)  full name / name of organization:  Craig Howes
contact email:  CFP: Narratives of Life: Aging and Identity. Ed.
Heike Hartung, Roberta Maierhofer  The prospect of increasing
longevity has turned ageing and old age into a topic of concern
in Western societies. The discourse of age and the proliferation
of narrative in contemporary media culture both transgress
disciplinary boundaries. Addressing the 'narratives of life'
from different disciplinary angles this volume aims to explore
the scope of a narrative gerontology. Ageing and the stories
that are told about it or from within are transnational and
transcultural phenomena. While ageing is thus a universal
process, attention is also drawn to the categories of difference
that it evokes: Historical, social and cultural differences as
well as gender differences.  Representations of age in different
modes of story telling, history and life writing will be among
the central issues of the volume. Di