Alternative temporalities : the emancipatory power of narrative /

"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 e...

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Other Authors: Valentini, Teresa (Editor), Weiser, Angela (Editor), Zilcosky, John (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Rethinking Time. Modern Times / John Zilcosky
  • The Unvirgin Sister and South : Racial and Sexual (Im)purity and Temporality in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury / Anna Kozak
  • Time in Alice Munro's Short Stories : "The Flats Road," "Heirs of the Living Body," and "Lichen" / Laura K. Davis
  • Unsettling settler-colonial timescapes : trauma time and indigenous temporalities in Tracey Lindberg's Birdie / Julia Siepak
  • Reshaping the Past : Time and Its Transcendence in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being / Nathaniel Preston
  • Timeless Joy : Rumi's Poetry and the Praxis of the Transcendental / Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh and Behrang Ajam
  • Part 2: Re-acting Time. Destroying the Body, Creating the Soul : Derek Jarman's Blue and the Dissolution of Image, Language, and Self / Benjamin Nothwehr
  • Housing Time : New Approaches to Time and Trauma in Arabic Prison Poetry / Abdulrahman Al Farhan
  • Resisting Prison Time : Hayashi Fusao and "May Day in Prison" / Edwin Michielsen
  • Samuel Beckett's walking time / Andre Furlani
  • Literature, non-human temporality, and the philosophy of time / Adam Barrows.