Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature
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Adam Roberts
Anglo-American literature
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Charles Yu
chronopolitics
contemporary narrative theory
digital era literature
Don DeLillo
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innovative time frameworks in fiction
Jennifer Egan
John Wray
literary temporal structures
memory
memory studies
narrative
Natasha Pulley
phenomenological temporality
phenomenology
Point Omega
Robert J. Sawyer
Ted Chiang
temporality
The Candy House
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
Zero K
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- ISBN 9781041006459
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book investigates representations of time in twenty‑first‑century Anglo‑American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of the subject. This book discusses literary texts that craft innovative temporal structures out of sync with the new time logic: suspended temporality (Chapter 1); time as a conflation of phenomenological experience and cosmological laws (Chapter 2); previewing the future (Chapter 3); and networked memory (Chapter 4). The proposed politically productive temporalities, such as deep presence or resonance, compatibilism, contingency, and the use of narrative as a chronologizing strategy, ground a vision of change and suggest a way out of the crisis of time. Identifying new timeframes in twenty‑first‑century fiction by an array of writers, this book demonstrates that literature remains a valid medium for theorizing and representing time.
Sonia Front is Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She teaches literature and media studies. Her research interests include time and temporality as well as representations of consciousness in twenty‑first‑century literature, film, and television. Her previous monograph is titled Shapes of Time in British Twenty‑First Century Quantum Fiction. She is the Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Time.
