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    Alternative Temporalities
    The Emancipatory Power of Narrative

    Teresa Valentini (Edited by), Angela Weiser (Edited by), John Zilcosky (Edited by)

    9781487551919

    Hardback, published 15 January 2025

    264 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg

    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.

    Acknowledgments
    List of Illustrations

    Introduction
    Teresa Valentini and Angela Weiser

    Part 1: Re-thinking Time

    1. Modern Times
    John Zilcosky

    2. The Unvirgin Sister and South: Racial and Sexual (Im)purity and Temporality in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
    Anna Kozak

    3. Time in Alice Munro’s Short Stories: "The Flats Road," "Heirs of the Living Body," and "Lichen"
    Laura Davis

    4. Representing Alternative Temporalities: Trauma Time and Indigenous Experience of Temporality in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie
    Julia Siepak

    5. Reshaping the Past: Time and Its Transcendence in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
    Nathaniel Preston

    6. Timeless Joy: Rumi’s Poetry and the Praxis of the Transcendental
    Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh and Behrang Ajam

    Part 2: Re-acting Time

    7. Destroying the Body, Creating the Soul: Derek Jarman’s Blue and the Dissolution of Image, Language, and Self
    Benji Nothwehr

    8. Housing Time: New Approaches to Time and Trauma in Arabic Prison Poetry
    Abdulrahman Al Farhan

    9. Resisting Prison Time: Hayashi Fusao and "May Day in Prison"
    Edwin Michielsen

    10. Samuel Beckett’s Time Pieces
    Andre Furlani

    Conclusion: Literature, Nonhuman Temporality, and the Philosophy of Time
    Adam Barrows

    Bibliography
    Index
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