mercy E. Ray. Beyond Nostalgia: Agi...

mercy E. Ray. Beyond Nostalgia: Aging and Life-Story Writing. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000 256 pp ISBN 0-8139-1939-8 $3500

pity E. Ray has written a very strange book. Based on a three-year research plot with senior writing groups, the one and the other African American and predominantly White, Ray does a amiable piece of feminist research forward older adults, mostly women Her part is at once excellent research and insightful analysis of of the present day meanings about age. Ray argues convincingly that feminist critics and researchers have largely have charge ofed age as a source for knowledge about the