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Alternative Temporalities : The Emancipatory Power of Narrative / ed. by Teresa Valentini, Angela Weiser, John Zilcosky.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Time in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.) : 2 b&w illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression. Alternative Temporalities draws on analyses of modern literature to examine this often-neglected role of time. By exploring forms of temporal resistance in artistic representation, such as short stories and novels, that challenge the imposition of colonial, gender, or capitalist temporal orders, the book reveals how storytelling can be an essential tool in questioning and pushing back against coercive temporal structures. The book analyses literary representations of time that challenge dominant temporalities and intersect different disciplines such as gender and sexuality studies, trauma and Indigenous studies, race and identity, and religion. It features narrative analyses proposing alternative embodied experiences of time, focusing on topics including the temporality of the AIDS-affected body, the experience of time in prison, and slowness in opposition to modern acceleration. Ultimately, Alternative Temporalities aims to create new theories as well as practices that may foster more diverse and inclusive ways of perceiving and embodying time.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: Rethinking Time
- 1 Modern Times
- 2 The Unvirgin Sister and the South: Racial and Sexual (Im)purity and Temporality in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
- 3 Time in Alice Munro’s Short Stories: “The Flats Road,” “Heirs of the Living Body,” and “Lichen”
- 4 Unsettling Settler-Colonial Timescapes: Trauma Time and Indigenous Temporalities in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie
- 5 Reshaping the Past: Time and Its Transcendence in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
- 6 Timeless Joy: Rumi’s Poetry and the Praxis of the Transcendental
- Part 2: Reacting Time
- 7 Destroying the Body, Creating the Soul: Derek Jarman’s Blue and the Dissolution of Image, Language, and Self
- 8 Housing Time: New Approaches to Time and Trauma in Arabic Prison Poetry
- 9 Resisting Prison Time: Hayashi Fusao and “May Day in Prison”
- 10 Samuel Beckett’s Walking Time
- Literature, Non-human Temporality, and the Philosophy of Time
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9781487551926
- 1487551924
- 9781487551933
- 1487551932
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