Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing· 2020· Book chapter
Time, Narrative and History
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Sequels in contemporary women's writing generate temporal suspension, questioning conventional notions of time, narrative, and history.
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Key points
- Sequels in contemporary women's writing challenge conventional concepts of time, narrative, and history.
- The sequel functions as a device to generate temporal suspension, proliferation, and process.
- The analysis draws on theoretical frameworks such as Elizabeth Grosz's 'nick' and Donna Haraway's Chthulucene.
- Specific literary examples include Nalo Hopkinson's 'Brown Girl in the Ring', Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels, and Margaret Atwood's 'MaddAddam' trilogy.
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Abstract
This chapter examines the relationship between gender, time, narrative and history, drawing on Elizabeth Grosz’s idea of the rupture or ‘nick’ and Haraway’s conception of the Chthulucene. Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) and its use of Great Time are considered here, as well as the device of the sequel as it functions in texts as different as Doris Lessing’s Ifrik novels, Mara and Dann (1999) and General Dann (2005), Maggie Gee’s The Flood (2004), Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (2003–2013) and Liz Jensen’s The Rapture (2009). The sequel functions, the chapter argues, to generate a state of suspension, proliferation or process that questions conventional conceptualisations of time, narrative and history.
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