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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1: Introduction: Chronotropics.- Part I:
Defiances/Divergences/Digressions.- 2: Of Slave Ships as Chronotopes:
Fabienne Kanors Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarros Las Negras.- 3:
Wreckognition: Archival Ruins in Dionne Brands The Blue Clerk.- 4: Past
Histories and Present Realities: Reading Desire and Difference in Mayra
Santos Febres Fe en disfraz.- 5: Haunting Genealogies: Indo-Caribbean
Feminist Literary Reimaginings of the Monstrous Past.- Part II:
Traumas/Restructures/Retracings.- 6: Connecting Diasporas: Reading Erna
Brodbers Work through African Fractal Theory.- 7: When the Tout-Monde is not
one: Maryse Condés Problematic World-in-Motion in Les belles ténébreuses
(2008) and Le fabuleux et triste destin dIvan et Ivana (2017).- 8: Writing
In Transit: Literary Constructions of Sovereignty in Julia Alvarezs
Afterlife.- Part III: Destruction/Desires/Disruptions.- 9: Beyond the
Crossroad: Caribbean Environments, Gender and Race in Pauline Melvilles The
Ventriloquists Taleand Elizabeth Nunezs Prosperos Daughter.- 10: Creolized
Ecology in Mayra Monteros Palm of Darkness.- 11: Canadian Re-mapping of
Caribbean Desire in Nalo Hopkinsons Sister Mine and Shani Mootoos He Drown
She in the Sea.- Part IV: Bilocation/Inhabitations/(G)hostings.- 12:
Spiritual Crossings: Olokśn and Caribbean Futures Past in La mucama de
Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernįndez.- 13: A Site of Memory: Revisiting (in)
Gisčle Pineaus Mes quatre femmes.- 14: At the Crossroads of History: The
Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Marss LAnge du patriarche.- 15:
Fiction as a Spiders Web? Ananse, Tricksters, and Storytellers in Karen
Lords Redemption in Indigo.
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 Marys University, Canada, and an executive member of the Committee on Comparative Gender Studies within the International Comparative Literature Association.
