Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Rethinking Time
7. 1 Modern Times 21
8. 2 The Unvirgin Sister and the South: Racial and Sexual (Im)purity and Temporality in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 44
9. 3 Time in Alice Munro’s Short Stories: “The Flats Road,” “Heirs of the Living Body,” and “Lichen” 61
10. 4 Unsettling Settler-Colonial Timescapes: Trauma Time and Indigenous Temporalities in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie 76
11. 5 Reshaping the Past: Time and Its Transcendence in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being 94
12. 6 Timeless Joy: Rumi’s Poetry and the Praxis of the Transcendental 117
13. Part 2: Reacting Time
14. 7 Destroying the Body, Creating the Soul: Derek Jarman’s Blue and the Dissolution of Image, Language, and Self 135
15. 8 Housing Time: New Approaches to Time and Trauma in Arabic Prison Poetry 152
16. 9 Resisting Prison Time: Hayashi Fusao and “May Day in Prison” 175
17. 10 Samuel Beckett’s Walking Time 189
18. Literature, Non-human Temporality, and the Philosophy of Time 205
19. Bibliography 223
20. Contributors 241
21. Index 243