"And I May Mutate into a Matriarch": Aging, Crisis, and Speculative Fiction in Margaret Laurence's The Fire-Dwellers.

The article focuses on Margaret Laurence's "The Fire-Dwellers" as a critical exploration of midlife crises through an age studies perspective, situating the novel within the broader historical and cultural discourse of aging in the 1960s and 1970s. Topics include the intersection of midlife crises with gender and societal expectations, the influence of speculative fiction on perceptions of aging, and the novel's critique of settler-capitalist culture.