9781324065647

Grand Finales

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781324065647

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One of our most formidable literary critics explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts.

In 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her attention on the boons of a longevity she did not expect to experience. She began to think: In the last years of our lives, can we shape and change our creative capabilities?

The resulting volume, Grand Finales, answers this question with a resounding yes. Despite the losses generally associated with aging, quite a few writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers have managed to extend and repurpose their creative energies. Gubar spotlights very creative old ladies: writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers from the past and in our times.

Each of Grand Finales' nine riveting chapters features women artists--George Eliot, Colette, Georgia O'Keeffe, Isak Dinesen, Marianne Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Lou Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Katherine Dunham--who transformed the last stage of existence into a rousing conclusion. Gubar draws on their late lives and works to suggest that seniority can become a time of reinvention and renewal. With pizzazz, bravado, and geezer machismo, she counters the discrediting of elderly women and clarifies the environments, relationships, activities, and attitudes that sponsor a creative old age.


ISBN-13

9781324065647

ISBN-10

1324065648

Weight

1.25 Pounds

Dimensions

6.20 x 1.30 x 9.30 In

List Price

$35.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

384 pages

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published On

2025-06-10



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