On the beat: Owning/reclaiming time against white chronocentrism
One of the most pervasive and still relatively understudied effects of European colonialism is the way in which it has used time as a tool of oppression and racialization. Colonial historiography and anthropology have indeed produced epistemologies that ensnared the West’s ‘Other’ into a temporal stasis, denying BIPOC a place in modernity and, consequently, a possible future. At the same time, the power structures that proceeded from these epistemologies have not only manifested in the creation of racial hierarchies still in place today, but they have also imposed unequal experiences of time upon subordinate subjects, delaying or hindering their access to resources, political power, and knowledge. FES 14 monographic issue collects contributions, ranging from literary studies to sociology and digital humanities, that investigate the different ways in which these submerged temporalities interact, clash, and intersect with European timeframes, rethinking modernity and its rhythms, challenging their dominance, and opening them up to non-Western, non-white (hi)stories and times.
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[pp. i-ii]Introduction: On the beat: Owning/reclaiming time against white chronocentrism
MARCO PETRELLI AND ANNA SCACCHI[pp. 4-11]Indigenous comics against settler time
MATTIA ARIOLI[pp. 12-27]Central/marginal processing units: race, multitasking, and representations of simultaneity in The Intuitionist
MAURO CARASSAI AND SEAN PESSIN[pp. 28-40]“Time to get outta line”: carnival time and the aesthetics of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago
GIUSEPPE SOFO[pp. 41-52]Disattivare le trappole del tempo: Traps di Caryl Churchill; o, cosa è rimasto del femminismo nelle temporalità queer
SERENA GUARRACINO[pp. 53-66]Whose youth are the future? Black youth rejecting liberal futurities in favor of liberatory visions of the not-yet-here
RAHSAAN MAHADEO[pp. 67-81]Finna: writing young Blacks into the future
ANNA SCACCHI[pp. 82-99]“There are better ways and places to spend your time”: historical stillness, quantum narration, and Black spacetime(s) in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book
MARCO PETRELLI[pp. 100-116]The endless revolution of the Philippines in Gina Apostol’s novels
ENRICO MARIANI[pp. 117-130]Phantom limbs beating time: Black temporality in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred
CHIARA PATRIZI[pp. 131-142]When the bones begin to speak
NONI D. CARTER[pp. 143-159]
Reviews
Julius B. Fleming Jr.’s Black Patience: Unveiling the transformative potential of theater during the Civil Rights Movement
VALENTINA RAPETTI[pp. 161-165]
Modeling the power of indigenous storytelling to address contemporary intergenerational trauma
ALICE SALION[pp. 166-170]Tempi contesi, tempi precari, tempi imposti
OSVALDO COSTANTINI[pp. 171-174]“Un misterioso accadimento”: straniamento, identificazione e memoria nei versi di Maḥmūd Darwīsh
PATRICK DI CROCE[pp. 175-179]