Catching up with Time: Belatedness and Anachronies in Francophone Literature and Culture

by Jean Khalfa (Editor), Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy (Editor), Alice Roullière (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as nonsynchronous and anti-chronological. The range of media (philosophical essays, film, plays, novels, autobiographical narratives) and periods (medieval, early modern, contemporary) explored here testify to the enduring significance of so-called «delays» and the need to rethink these as anachronies. The spectral presence of the notion of «Kairos» throughout this volume connects different attempts to subvert linear time, on occasion allowing events and temporalities to coexist and compete or, alternately, asking the mind to stretch itself and experience the uneasiness of time by attempting and failing to encompass diverse spaces and temporalities concomitantly. The resulting essays interrogate, test and contest the limits of the possible and enable a rethinking of what time could represent across disciplines and genres.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800793378
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	09/16/2022
Series:	Modern French Identities , #145
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy is Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages at Lucy Cavendish College and Affiliated Lecturer in the MMLL Faculty at the University of Cambridge. She recently published a monograph, Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing (2021).

Alice Roullière is a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Early Modern French Literature at St John’s College, Oxford. She teaches and researches French literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Contents: Chiara Collamati: À temps, c’est-à-dire tard. L’hystérésis comme outil d’intelligibilité dialectique chez Sartre – Domenico Cambria: La lecture est le retard de l’écriture. Interprétations autour de Roger Laporte, de Jacques Derrida et d’Edmond Jabès – Lili Owen Rowlands: When the self arrives late, or Didier Eribon’s autotheoretical (re)turn – Alice Laumier: Mémoire de fille d’Annie Ernaux: différer l’écriture, s’attarder sur l’événement – Diane Otosaka: Dissonances, retard et temps non-chronologique dans HHhH de Laurent Binet – Michael Grace: «Se trouver en deux temps à la fois»: Malabou’s and Marker’s plastic images – Sky Herington: «L’éternel recommencement»: From infernal cycles to subversive spirals in Sony Labou Tansi’s Conscience de tracteur (and beyond) – Sana Abdi: Al-ghurbah ou l’exil occidental comme pratique moderne du soufisme chez Abdelwahab Meddeb – Rebecca Courtier: Reading «in-between» the lines of La Fille du comte de Pontieu and Peau noire, masques blancs.