Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games

by Juan Francisco Belmonte Ávila (Editor), Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo (Editor)

Overview

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us but chooses to queer time and turn it into an ally of unbound forms of understanding identities.

Through the analysis of different media—literature, cinema, and video games—the chapters revolve around three key ideas: that there are inherently queer styles of using and dealing with time and temporality in culture; that the critical rediscovery of canonical texts and the analysis of largely ignored queer texts and authors allow for a better understanding of queer identities; and, finally, that normative conceptions of time can—and should—be challenged through critical tools that reconceptualize notions of the self around time.

This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working close to areas such as queer and gender studies, media and cinema studies, cultural studies, literary theory, comparative literature, game studies, and art history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040100059
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/19/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Juan Francisco Belmonte Ávila is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Murcia (Spain). His research focuses on the study of gender and sexuality in video games, and he has recently published his work in journals such as Continuum: A Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and The Journal of American Culture.

Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo is Assistant Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her research focuses on gender in postwar American poetry. She is the author of Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women (2023) and co-editor of ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art (2021).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Queer Time Unbound SECTION 1: (UN)FORMALIZING QUEER TIMES 2. In Perfect (A)Synchrony: Queer Style in The Line of Beauty 3. “I Am Where I Need to Be”: Queer Homemaking in Fullbright’s Gone Home 4. Identity in the In-Between: Narrative Temporality and the Queer Experience in Tangerine and Moonlight 5. Disruptions to the Linear and Individual Narrative of Psychic Distress in Mike Barnes’s The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis 6. Re-Temporalizing Trauma Through Gameplay in Gibson and Swanwick’s “Dogfight” 7. Disrupting Binaries and Linearities: Queer and Trans Temporalities in Imogen Binnie’s Nevada SECTION 2: UNEARTHING QUEER TIMES 8. Queer Memory and the Brown Commons 9. Time, Memory, and Queer Sensibility in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 10. A Faded Photograph: Ghosts, Specters, and Other Phantoms in Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers 11. “Be Three Now”: Queering the Postwar Heterosexual Marriage in Ann Quin’s Three 12. The Rogue as a Queer Agent in Video Games: The Picaresque Novel Legacy SECTION 3: UNBINDING QUEER TIME 13. Genesis Noir and Cosmological Time: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang 14. Posthuman Temporalities and Shared Timings: Kinship in the Work of Jim Jarmusch 15. “All the Ages We’ve Shaped Together’: Examining Queer Genealogies, Science Fiction and Non-Linear Storytelling through El-Mohtar and Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) 16. Unbound and Loving It!: Pleasure, Dressage and Queer Rhythmic Resistance in Monáe’s Dirty Computer 17. Imagining Neuroqueer Futures: Crip Time and Care-ful Connections in Night in the Woods