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Alternative Temporalities reveals how modern literature can help us rethink temporal categories and practices to resist normative time and foster diverse and inclusive temporalities.
List of contents
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 FuryAnna 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 BeingNathaniel 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
About the author
Edited by Teresa Valentini, Angela Weiser, and John Zilcosky
Summary
Alternative Temporalities reveals how modern literature can help us rethink temporal categories and practices to resist normative time and foster diverse and inclusive temporalities.
