Titlebook: Queer Aging in North American Fiction; Linda M. Hess Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to

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New Stories About Gay Aging: Mike Mills’s , (2010)possibility of imagining or telling such a story throughout most of the twentieth century. The film exposes the policing mechanisms inherent in heteronormative discourses via its meta-level commentary on memory and on constructing live stories. Moreover, it uses its own portrayal of gay aging to demand new and different narratives of queer aging.

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Introduction: Queer Aging and the Significance of Representation, though age and aging frequently serve as important narrative elements in queer fiction, and queerness can open up alternative ways of thinking about aging and the life course. Introducing temporality, futurity, productivity, success, and failure as central tropes that shape understandings of growin

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The Menace of Gay Aging: James Baldwin’s , (1956) passing by scholars. Hess illustrates that themes of age and temporality crucially shape the narrative. She examines the novel’s central binary oppositions that function on the basis of age relations: the dichotomy of young, “pure,” heteronormative America versus old, permissive, decadent Europe, a

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Visible Old Lesbians: Suzette Mayr’s , (1998) women during the 1990s. The author explores the novel’s revisionist approach to history via the trope of the “ghosted lesbian,” which she engages to highlight the narrative’s exposure of the label “widow” as one that has historically overwritten and obscured women’s non-normative life courses. Hess