Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Representations of Time in Twenty-First-Century Anglo-American Literature

Chapter 1: Time Suspended

Chapter 2: Temporal Consciousness

Chapter 3: Memory of the Future

Chapter 4: Networked Memory

Conclusion: The Chronometer of Literature

Index

It investigates representations of time in 21st century Anglo-American literature, focusing on innovative timeframes out of sync with the new time logic of digital capitalism. Revising prevalent, oppressive notions of time, fiction offers politically productive temporalities to reclaim the agency of the subject and resist the crisis of time.

Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync?is a thought-provoking addition to the study of time in modern Anglo-American literature. Offering an overview of contemporary processes and scales, from the epoch of the Anthropocene to the periodisation of Western history, the accelerated hour of industrialisation, and the atomization of the digital, the monograph diagnoses crises and ruptures in our concepts of time. This wide lens opens up the temporal logic of late capitalism and how this has come to shape, and been shaped by, literary representations.

?--Isabelle Wentworth,?University of Wollongong, Australia

This book investigates representations of time in twentyfirstcentury AngloAmerican 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 l³Ã