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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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.