Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

By: Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann

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Synopsis: Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form, which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism, queer studies, affect theory, and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 264 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000922974
Related ISBNs:: 9781003348122, 9781032390307, 9781000922905
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/15/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sibylle Baumbach
Edited by:: Birgit Neumann