Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baumbach, Sibylle; Neumann, Birgit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering pluralised and context-sensitives 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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000922974
• Artikelnr.: 68267747

Autorenporträt

Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). She is the author of Literature and Fascination (2015) and co-editor of several volumes and special issues, including Narratives Between Attention and Mind-Wandering (2022), Victorian Surfaces (2021), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Brexit and Academia (2021). Birgit Neumann is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Translation Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). Recent publications include Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literatures (2020, with Gabriele Rippl), as well as the edited and co-edited volumes Anglophone World Literatures (2017), Global Literary Histories (2018), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Whose Temporalities? Which Crises? Temporalities in and of Crises in Anglophone Literatures (Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann)



2. Time of the Seasons: Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet as Crisis Literature (Dirk Wiemann)



3. Temporalising the Troubles: Anna Burns's Milkman (Raphael Zähringer)



4. The Entangled Times of COVID, Climate, and Race in the US: Reading the "Heterotemporality" of Colson Whitehead's Zone One (Rick Crownshaw)



5. Shakespeare, Auerbach, Vladislavic: Figural Readings and Temporalities of Crisis in Johannesburg (Russell West-Pavlov)



6. Forms of Futurity: The Entangled Temporalities of Eco-terror in the Niger Delta (Amanda Lagji)



7. "I Do I Did I Think I Thought": Temporal Contiguities of Pregnancy and the Ecological Crisis (Leila Michelle Vaziri)



8. Lerner's Lists: The Novel and the Time of Living (Arne De Boever)



9. 'Corked up in Cages': Crisis, Control, and Communication in Waiting-Room Poetry (Christoph Singer)



10. The Physics of Ravicka: Queer Temporalities of Renee Gladman's Quadrilogy (E. L. McCallum)



11. The Scale of Time: Literary Figurations of Nuclear Temporalities (Gabriele Schwab)



12. Crisis Time and Rereading (Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt)

Index