Overview
- Elaborates the theoretical framework of chronotropics to explore spacetime in Caribbean women’s writing
- Examines women’s literature that actively deconstructs the androcentric, modern western
- Focuses on twenty-first-century women writers and is pan-Caribbean in scope
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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About this book
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.
This is an open access book.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chronotropics
Book Subtitle: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime
Editors: Odile Ferly, Tegan Zimmerman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32111-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32110-8Published: 13 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32113-9Due: 26 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32111-5Published: 12 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 316
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Literary Theory