Chronotropics
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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the…mehr

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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric.

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¿Odile Ferly is Associate Professor of Francophone Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of A Poetics of Relation: Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium (2012).  Tegan Zimmerman is an Adjunct Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary's University, Canada, and an executive member of the Committee on Comparative Gender Studies within the International Comparative Literature Association.