Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). She is the author of Literature and Fascination (2015) and co-editor of several volumes and special issues, including Narratives Between Attention and Mind-Wandering (2022), Victorian Surfaces (2021), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Brexit and Academia (2021). Birgit Neumann is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Translation Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). Recent publications include Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literatures (2020, with Gabriele Rippl), as well as the edited and co-edited volumes Anglophone World Literatures (2017), Global Literary Histories (2018), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures (2021).

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Whose Temporalities? Which Crises? Temporalities in and of Crises in Anglophone Literatures (Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann)



Time of the Seasons: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet as Crisis Literature (Dirk Wiemann)



Temporalising the Troubles: Anna Burns’s Milkman (Raphael Zähringer)



The Entangled Times of COVID, Climate, and Race in the US: Reading the "Heterotemporality" of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (Rick Crownshaw)



Shakespeare, Auerbach, Vladislavić: Figural Readings and Temporalities of Crisis in Johannesburg (Russell West-Pavlov)



Forms of Futurity: The Entangled Temporalities of Eco-terror in the Niger Delta (Amanda Lagji)



"I Do I Did I Think I Thought": Temporal Contiguities of Pregnancy and the Ecological Crisis (Leila Michelle Vaziri)



Lerner’s Lists: The Novel and the Time of Living (Arne De Boever)



‘Corked up in Cages’: Crisis, Control, and Communication in Waiting-Room Poetry (Christoph Singer)



The Physics of Ravicka: Queer Temporalities of Renee Gladman’s Quadrilogy (E. L. McCallum)



The Scale of Time: Literary Figurations of Nuclear Temporalities (Gabriele Schwab)



Crisis Time and Rereading (Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt)

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