Chronotropics Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime

• Other Authors: Ferly, Odile (Editor), Zimmerman, Tegan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literature, Gender and Sexuality; Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Literature and the Environment; Capitalism; Eurocentric; Legacy of slavery; Economic order; Temporality; Mikhail Bakhtin; Anti-colonial; Violence; Diaspora
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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetimeinherited 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.