Beyond nostalgia
Subtitle: aging and life-story writing
By: Ruth E. Ray.
Series: Age studies
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Autobiography -- Authorship -- Study and teaching.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Michigan -- Detroit Region.; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Michigan -- Detroit Region.; Older people -- Education -- Michigan -- Detroit Region.; Aging -- Michigan -- Detroit Region.
Description: "For three years Ruth E. Ray visited and participated in eight writing groups at six senior centers in inner-city and suburban Detroit, looking for ways in which the elderly fashion their memories through personal narrative. Her innovative book involves the reader in the construction of life stories as a richly rewarding and highly social process that often reveals the types of relationships that dominate the lives of group members, the majority of whom are women.".

"Beyond Nostalgia should appeal to academics and practitioners in women's studies, composition studies, gerontology, developmental psychology, sociology, social work, and linguistics, and to anyone who works with older people."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-261) and index.