Literary Landscapes of Time Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures 1st Edition by Jobst Welge, Juliane Tauchnitz 3110762293 9783110762297

I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields

II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s)

III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes

I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields

Gesine Müller Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning in Nineteenth-Century Spanish- and French-Language Caribbean Literatures

1 Émeric Bergeaud: Stella (1859)

2 Louis de Maynard de Queilhe: Outre-mer (1835)

3 María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo (Condesa de Merlín): La Havane (1844)

4 Eugenio María de Hostos: La peregrinación de Bayoán (1863)

5 Maryse Condé: Traversée de la Mangrove (1989)

6 Conclusion

Sarah Burnautzki Dissolution of Time and Space in Memórias postumas de Brás Cubas

1 Time and Space – Two “Misplaced Ideas”?

2 Abolition of Time and Space through the Construction of a Paradoxical Narrative Situation

3 Anti-realistic Time and the Spatial Structure of the Frame Story

4 Anti-realistic Time and Space Structure of the Inner Story

5 Temporal and Spatial Distortion of the Narration

6 Misplaced Ideas, Belated Literatures: Overcoming Restrictive Coordinates of Space and Time

Anne Brüske Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017)

1 Cuba and Comics – Postsocialism and Postcolonialism

2 Graphic Narratives, the Production of Space, and Geopolitical Imaginaries

3 The Production of Space in Adiós mi Habana: Cuba in a Global World

4 Narrating Autobiographical Cuban Space(s) from a Transnational Angle

5 Producing Multiscalar “Imagined Worlds” and “Geopolitical Imaginaries” through Intertextuality

6 Producing Multiscalar “Imagined Worlds,” Retrieving “Images” from the Archive

II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s)

Miriam Lay Brander Timescapes of the Desert: Multiple Temporalities in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão

1 From Euclides da Cunha, Os sertões (1902) to Grande Sertão: Veredas

2 A Narrative Timescape

3 Time of Riobaldo’s Experience

4 Time of the Sertão: From Local to Universal Time

Jobst Welge Tropical Temporalities: Literary Landscape and Multiple Times in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos

1 The Other Time of the Amazon

2 Modernity and the Desire for Nature

3 Temporal Layers, Time Travel

4 The Amazon as Literary Landscape

Jörg Dünne The Whims of the Climate: Landscapes of Deep Time in Juan José Saer’s Las Nubes

1 Landscapes and the Terrestrial

2 Rereading the History of Argentinean Literature from a Terrestrial Perspective

3 Delirious Landscapes in Juan José Saer

4 Literary Cosmogonies and Landscapes of Deep Time

III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes

Carlos Fonseca The Landscape in Ruins

1 Geohistory, Catastrophe, and the Archaeology of the Modern Nation-State

2 A Geological Counter-Modernity: The Desert as Land-Archive

3 Too Much or Too Little: Incommensurability in Os Sertões

4 After Catastrophe: Nature after the Ruin of Landscape

Anna Jörngården Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature

1 Ruins, Monuments, Counter-Monuments

2 Ruins of Suffering: Chamoiseau

3 Ruins of Demodernization: Danticat

4 Ruin of Resistance: Marshall

5 Presencing Absence

Juliane Tauchnitz Prisons, Ruins, Bodies, and the Extension of Space and Time in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Un dimanche au cachot

Decolonizing Bodies

Remembering the Space of the Body

Presenting the Body as Space

Christina Kullberg Whirlwinds of Sounds: Rethinking Hurricane Temporalities through Contemporary Poetry from the Lesser Antilles

1 Hurricane Continuum

2 Sounding Out Hurricane Temporalities

Sara Brandellero Night-time Mobilities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Spectralities in the 24-hour City and the Case of Burning Night (2019)

1 Introduction

2 The Night, Labor and its Specters

3 Taxi/Night Drivers

4 Paulo’s Night-time Rio

5 The Taxi

6 Breaks in Urban Transits

7 Conclusion